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Enhanced security for admin access to Protect

Administrative access to Spectrum Protect (including but not limited to the WebUI) has a weak security model.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

Operation Center Report Interval

TSM Operation center reports scheduling is limited. Some reports for management are more useful at monthly, quarterly or even yearly intervals, however currently the only supported schedules are daily or weekly. Adding additional duration options ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

V7000 Hyperswap reduced FC connectivity between Sites

The V7000 with Hyperswap configuration with no ISL. Two V7K enclosure implemented for two site with NO ISL configuration. Two site has been connected each other via 4 FC link . The connectivity is limited with 4 FC cables instead of 8 FC cables an...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

The TSM Fastback function does not meet the needs of

Please expand the storage space of the the Fastback software supports more than 2TB, users have 4TB of data need to be backed up
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack Center 2 Not under consideration

Application Aware VMWare Flash Copy Manager

Flash copy manager needs to be application aware for database engines running on Windows in a VMWare environment. In order of importance Microsoft SQL Server, IBM UDB/LUW, Oracle, My SQL. The current ability of flash copy manager requires the data...
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

Specific SVC User Group for FCM Actions

For the use of FCM with SVC, a specific SVC user is needed which has to be part of a specific group. Currently, the user must be member of the group "Administrator". As this group has a very high set of critical rights, it would be better to have ...
about 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

SVC - Flashcopy incremental sync report sizes

Currently when taking a SVC Flashcopy snapshot there's no way of recording or reporting how much was copied from the source to target vdisks.
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Utilize FlashCopy Manager to do ad-hoc clones from the backup target volumes to eliminate impact on production systems

Customers are asking for the ability to clone their database applications (Oracle, ERP, etc..) and not impact the production system on an ad-hoc basis. They want to be able to 'clone on demand' during the day and the existing process causes a shor...
about 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

Tivoli Central Console shows Wrong Data

TSM FastBack for Workstations Central Administration Console does not show the correct data.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Workstations 2 Not under consideration

Different method to reset an expired password for MI users

At present when a password expires in VTS MI the only way to reset it is asking the CE to open a PMH to reset the admin user so it can reset the password of the user affected.The customer would like that each user can reset their own password with...
about 8 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration