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Hide filenames for TSM administrators

When a client requests to encrypt files in a backup, filenames and directories are available in clear text in the database, fully accessible by administrators. Secret information may be revealed. This is a major show stopper for MSPs and CSPs in t...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Visibility to volume and LSS use of space for ESE volume

We are just starting to implement thinly provisioned ESE volumes and have identified some deficiencies in the lack of granularity in the visibility to the amount of space utilized. We do have a way to look at the space used from z/OS we don't have...
about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

We want TSM for VE client skip backup of all other VM's on that data-store once the backup job has detected the out-of-space

Statefarm is using TSM for VE (Data Mover Node) to back up virtual desktop from Citrix/VMware Infrastructure. When Data Store run out of space for any reason, backup of vm fails but TSM for VE client keep trying to backup next VM in same data stor...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Tivoli Storage Management Operation Center At risk management for VMs

Tivoli Operation Center display excluded or removed VMs as "at risk".
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Stronger passwords for TSM

Expanded character set for TSM passwords to meet industry standard complexity requirements. Most places require a password with the following: * Are at least eight alphanumeric characters long* Contain at least three of the following four categori...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

MOVE NODEDATA command enhancement

One form of the MOVE NODEDATA command allows the movement of selected file spaces of a single node between storage pools. For example, MOVE NODEdata node_name FROMstgpool=source_pool_name TOstgpool=destination_pool_name FIlespace=file_space_name H...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Database Report

the SPP does not have a specific report for databases with the total consumed separately from the VMs
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Easy Tier migration plan customizable time interval

Easy Tier migration plans are now created each 24 hour. Provide a customization option to allow shorter intervals.
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

show rebuild V7000 under running tasks

As you can see we've had a hard disk with a lot errors. We've changed the hdd with a new one and reset the disk status back to spare disk. After this the array began to rebuild, but you can't see anything under the GUI of the V7000. Only with a sp...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Is a defect

TSM support for Oracle VM and Oracle Enterprise Linux

My customer addressed TSM as their standard product that provides backup archive across various platform (AIX,Windows,Linux(RHEL,SLES)Recently Oracle Linux and Oracle were installed in their environment. My customer ask TSM to support Oracle VM an...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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