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TSM Operations Center GUI improvements client at risk status

Exclude a node from at-risk condition when the ANS7900W warning message occurs.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

rename management class

We use TSM Client to archive data that has been delivered to our external clients just to be able to reproduce issues if the client has issues with our data
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Keep supporting TSM API (backup to TSM via BRMS on IBM i)

We would like to extend TSM API support for BRMS for TSM 6.2 & V7.1
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Enable automatic regeneration of an expired password on any session

When the password of a client node expires on the TSM server node, the client node is able to automatically set a new password when passwordaccess is set to generate. However, this does not work if the password expires while a client node is in th...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Add more than 2 site support in SRA/SRM (VMware Site Recovery Manager for SVC

VMware SRM (Site Recovery Manager) interacts with SVC SRA (Site Recovery Adapter) for Site-A to Site-B using Metro Mirror. When adding another Metro Mirror relationship Site-A to Site-C (for a complete different purpose on different LUN). The prev...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

report if backup was deduped by client

If the client de-duplication has been enabled for a given node, but the estimated size is bigger than:tsm: TSMWAR01>q opt *deduptx* Server Option Option Setting------------------------- -----------------------------------ClientDedupTxnLimit 1,0...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement to the new node 'decommission' command

TSM 7.1.3 introduces a new command called 'decommission node' Can this be enhanced to have a date option to specify a future date other than the default retention policy? Example: "decommission node xxxx date=12/31/2015 ...."
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Discover Reporting

Spectrum Discover is a powerful and useful tool, however, the reporting capability needs to match the product capability.
about 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 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

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...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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