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Populate the file space information with VM space information

The current filespace information consists of a capacity and percent utilized. For a VM backup this information is blank. I propose that the capacity correspond to the vcenter reported value Provisioned Storage and the percent utilized be calculat...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Backup status report scope

There is a pulldown on the Backup Status report in the vCenter plug-in that allows the user to select a Datacenter for the scope of the report.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

API support for backups of RedHat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV)

Customers are asking if TSM will support the API for processing backups in the RHEV environment... "Red Hat is already collaborating with several industry leaders to integrate their solutions with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization via the new plug...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Support TSM Administration Center Version 6.3 when using Firefox browser versions newer than 3.0, 3.5, or 3.6.

The browser requirements for TSM Administration Center Version 6.3 are Firefox 3.0, 3.5, and 3.6. The current Firefox version is 22. The Admin Center should use Firefox version 3.6 or later.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Login Banner

Security/Audit demands an authorised legal disclaimer is displayed and acknowledged before user access to IT systems, services or devices is granted
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM instance crashed; Error: fileystem full, however no ANR2992W was warning encountered before filesystem becomes full.

Customer is not seeing ANR2992W warning before TSM ran out of DB space, and has what should be adequate space available.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Automation of TSM configuration

Automatically discover devices and (re-)configure TSM server/client options It's reported that our competitive products may have had such capability. Account team contacts: Ken Kelly/Waltham/IBM, Daniel R Digregorio/Waltham/IBM@IBMUS, Gary Graham/...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Add capability to extract data from existing TSM backup to a second node

A lerge number of customer require periodic long retention backups.    Currently the most space efficient way of achieveing this is by having a second node for the long term retention and running periodic ( e.g. weekly, monthly, quarterl...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TDP Exchange doesn't support restoring mailboxes greater then 2,1 GB

We need to restore mailboxes into a single pst-files.Restoring process stopped after appr. 2,1 GBError message: ACN5935W The mailbox restore operation has only partially completed.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

Multiple journal based services on AIX

We would like to have multiple journal based services on AIX. As far as we know, actually this is just implemented on Windows systems but we would like to have it on our AIX and Linux systems.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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