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Want to have multiuser backup/restore feature in IBM Spectrum Protect for Workstaion software

Wants to have multiuser backup/restore feature in IBM Spectrum Protect Workstation/IBM Tivoli Fastback for Workstation software as Bank of India customer wants this feature in the backup tool where any user can use any PC as per baking policy.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Workstations 1 Not under consideration

Wants to generate backup report in pdf format instead of xml -IBM fastback for workstations central administration console

Not able to download/export backup report in PDF format(giving option to download report in XML format) from Fastback Workstation Administration Console. This is primary requirement of customer(Bank of India).
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Workstations 1 Not under consideration

UTC Timezone selection in Storwize GUI at initial install wizard.

At initial V7000 Wizard System Setup (at initial login of install) the Task "Date and Time" where you can enter manual or NTP, appears that UTC Timezone is not selectable from the pull-down menu choices.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

SPP - Interactive Donut

SPP - Interactive Donut - drill down from the Manage Protection > Protection by Policy.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

synchronization timestamp of eventlog and auditlog ( IC89861 acceleration)

System : Storwise V7000 codeActor : User needing function enhancement Storwise V7000 has two different timestamps in Flashcopy related services　logs, which are cluster time and node unique time. Cluster timer can be synchronized by NTP protocol, h...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TDP VE 7.1 Schedule return codes.

TDP VE 7.1 does not return failed 12 for any vm's that fail during scheduled backups.This needs to be enabled to return a code of 12 for the scheduled backups without which the tracking becomes difficult.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Node Replication process

Hi,a backup process is preempted by Node Replication process. This is incomprehensible. Why Node Replication process has a higher priority than backup ? In this way, backup stg process should also have a higher priority.Thank you.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

Bandwidth throttling between two TSM servers during the "node replication"

The customer want to have the possibility to have a flexible bandwith during the node replication with a secodary TSM according to their needs.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Cluster management address should not move after reboot

If only one cannister has an active IP network connection (due to external failure or some other issue) the management IP address (cluster address) should not "float" to the cannister that has no active connection. It should stay locked to the one...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Windows 2012 dedup API's

Need TSM to take advantage of the Windows 2012 dedup API's. This we are not rehydrating the information when we are backing up a 2012 server that is using the native dedup built in.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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