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Support for EMC Atmos cloud storage platform

Customer requested support for TSM to use Atmos cloud storage as they are migrating off of EMC Centerra device.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

GUI vs Command line

When I issues the command SET ACCESS BACKUP * nodename from the command line they get the following results as seen in the GUI: However, if they try to define it the same way in the gui an error is received: The results end up looking like this: T...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Implement SNMP on SVC/Storwize

Please implement readonly SNMP V2 server on the device to allow for asset management and discovery
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Keepalive option for Library client mount requests

Require library client sessions to use a keepalive or retry mechanism to keep from being timed out by firewalls. Library client is in one part of the network, library manager is in another, separated by firewall. Security rules insist that a timeo...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SP Recovery Agent Session Selection Saving

When you utilize "IBM Spectrum Protect Recovery Agent" and configure a "New IBM Spectrum Protect server ..." under the "IBM Spectrum Protect Server" section, it will override any previously configured servers (removes any previously configured ser...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Keep alive packets

I would like the client and server to send and answer keep alive packets on the main restore connection so that stateful firewalls will not time out the connection when the restore takes a long time due to many tape mounts or other reasons. It's o...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

Tivoli Flashcopy Manager support for DS8K Space Efficient Flashcopy

Client is in a Banking industry and a large customer of TSM and DS8K deployed site.( with several hundred TBs )The bank wishes to consider using FCM with Oracle / DB on AIX / Solaris Platform with DS8K SE Flashcopy Currently, FCM does not support ...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

TSM VE Support - include option to specify a DATACENTER in option file

There currently is no include option to specify a DATACENTER. Please add it
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Improve the DRP extraction

DR plan scripts is based on the assumption that TSM is recovered to the original TSM server system where the group, the user who owns the instance, the directories and the instance already exist.I think it is good to add commands to check if the g...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Add warnning message for Filesystem NFS excluded from Backup in option "all-local"

We use the "Client option set" to make a backups for a group of servers. When we use the domain "All-local" and specify a NFS Filesystem in a "Include" statement, the TSM Server doesn't show a message warnning reporting that are exclude of backup.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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