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Tivoli Storage Manager not compliant with IBM ITCS104 security rules

ESA Security board request to open this RFE in order that TSM password rules management should allow to configure the minimum ITCS104 rules.<br />Example : upper - lower case in pwd ,    minimum length=10 ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

TSM VE support for vsphere 5.5

Since vsphere 5.5 has already been released there is urgent need for support in TSM VE running on Windows.<br />TSM servers are on Linux Redhat 6.x<br />We are using TSM VE 6.4.1 and TSM Storage Manager 6.3 on Linux.<br />Compata...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

Node id change because of a shutdown

When a node in SVC is stopping unexpectedly, not regularly shut down, then the node gets a new node ID. Actually the node is automatically removed from the frame and then added again with a new id. This ruins the numbering system in the frame. Als...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TSM backup support for 2016 Nano Servers

We are in need of the ability to backup 2016 Nano Servers with TSM EE
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

SNMP Alert for Vdisk Mirroring out-of-sync

Italian Customer with large environment based on SVC in stretched cluster + GM over 450km is using mirrorwritepriority set to latency. The customer want to receive an SNMP alert when VdiskMirroring goes out-of-sync. Accordingly with Hursley Archit...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SVC node id changed

On the SVC GUI interface the node display name has been changed even after a UPS battery change. We need the GUI to keep the names on the list after any hardware operation. Would be great if it worked like the V7000 storage interface. It seems for...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect for Enterprise Resource Planning 8.1.0 for HANA running on SUSE 12 LE

We need to have the IBM Spectrum Protect ERP 8.1 for HANA running on SUSE 12 LE on POWER.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

incremantal backup via NDMP

Since TSM's limitation of doing NDMP backup of filer as full+differential. So if its having feature of adding incremental as one option, so we don't need to waste space by having differential backup as its become so large at one point until u do f...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Decomission Enhancements

We have been talking to multiple large clients regarding decommission feature.Decomission Node/VM is a great utility but it doesn't fully support all customers needs in it's current form. Decomission Node/VM should support the following options fr...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Virtualize - Assign or change SCSI ID for volume – removed in 7.6.GUI

Assign or change SCSI ID for volume – removed in 7.6 GUI. No option in the GUI to change or assign SCSI ID. Customer uses GUI almost exclusively - not CLI (only most experienced SAN Admin uses the CLI and then only when required. As the move thing...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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