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    HP StoreOnce Catalyst Integration for TSM

    HP StoreOnce Catalyst enables deduplication to be deployed in flexible, cost effective ways that were not previously possible. It provides enhanced multi-site and cascaded replication options to balance performance, cost, and resiliency. Exploitin...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    Canceling sessions by name

    Running sessions can be cancelled only by session id. .Please add a funcionality to cancel all sessions from one node with a single command. Further: Please add a option to cancel all sessions and prevent reopening of sessions by a node. Thank you...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Control not capturing real time hardware failures from DS8800

    we noticed our installed spectrum control isn't capturing real time failures from our enrolled IBM DS8k storage systems. cable and drive failures are not captured. kindly help optimize this so we can easily monitor our storages from the spectrum c...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

    improvement for 'Generate backupset' to support SQL and Exchange filespaces

    Backupsets are a great way to handle data to be stored for long term retention. Lots of TSM customers use backupsets for that purpose. Alas it's not possible to generate a backupset for filespaces containing data from TDP backups such as SQL and E...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

    Worm requirement to honor the TMC expiratoin date when a volume is created.

    Wells Fargo has a TS7700 related Worm requirement that would have the Ts7700 honor the expiration date specified by the Tape Management Catalog when a volume is created. This would prevent the volume from being inadvertently or maliciously scratch...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    File sync tools and Spectrum Scale permissions

    Copying data in Spectrum Scale, especially from external sources, can be problematic at times due to the way permissions work. This is particularly a problem when data needs to be synced through time in preparation for cutting over from a new exte...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    To Improve Communication Between Spectrum Protect Server (on Windows Platform) and VTL (Fujitsu Eternus CS)

    1. There is no option to define control path failover for medium changer (or timeout value for this), so whenever there is VLP failover in VTL or even small connection break, TSM immediately reports Library is not accessible and if we have volumes...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    TSM reports RC4 rather than RC12 Failed when an NFS volume mounts okay, but permission to underlying directories is denied

    NFS share backup scheduled backup not reporting a failure when TSM server cannot back up directory due to permission denied. The event table reports the schedule with a return code 4. The permission to the underlying directories (NetApp qtrees) mo...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    this applies to Spectrum CDM: Show Jobs IDs and SLA Policies IDs in CDM GUI

    Client remark: When a user defines in Spectrum CDM GUI a new backup or restore job, and also when a user defines a new "SLA Policy", a unique ID is assigned to the job and a unique ID is assigned to the SLA Policy. Both IDs are used @ storage subs...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Future consideration

    TS7700 Add ability to configure ciphers

    User requesting new capability - be allowed to configure ciphers within acceptable cipher set.
    almost 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

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