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    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 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    We want TSM for VE client skip backup of all other VM's on that data-store once the backup job has detected the out-of-space

    Statefarm is using TSM for VE (Data Mover Node) to back up virtual desktop from Citrix/VMware Infrastructure. When Data Store run out of space for any reason, backup of vm fails but TSM for VE client keep trying to backup next VM in same data stor...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

    Tivoli Storage Management Operation Center At risk management for VMs

    Tivoli Operation Center display excluded or removed VMs as "at risk".
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    MOVE NODEDATA command enhancement

    One form of the MOVE NODEDATA command allows the movement of selected file spaces of a single node between storage pools. For example, MOVE NODEdata node_name FROMstgpool=source_pool_name TOstgpool=destination_pool_name FIlespace=file_space_name H...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Support for mmrquotad to forward quota information from a remote AFM filesystem

    When using a solution based on AFM to share a GPFS cluster among different sites, the AFM caches are the ones exposed (e.g. mounted by NFS) to servers on the local sites. The available version of mmrquotad daemon (which dates from 2010) is able to...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    Easy Tier migration plan customizable time interval

    Easy Tier migration plans are now created each 24 hour. Provide a customization option to allow shorter intervals.
    over 10 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    TSM support for Oracle VM and Oracle Enterprise Linux

    My customer addressed TSM as their standard product that provides backup archive across various platform (AIX,Windows,Linux(RHEL,SLES)Recently Oracle Linux and Oracle were installed in their environment. My customer ask TSM to support Oracle VM an...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    FCM: ZFS Support for Solaris

    THE main volume manager for clustered systems is zfs. Without this support FCM for Solaris only can be used in a very small amounts of Solaris systems.
    about 14 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

    Include NAS Backups statistics in the data collection of Monitoring and Reporting.

    Currently, the results from NAS Backups (NDMP) stored in the summary table is not collected in the WAREHOUS database. As such, it's also not possible to produce any custom reports on NAS Backups. Collecting the rows from the summary table where ac...
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

    Develop a conversion utility for Day 2

    develop a conversion utility for Day 2 to change blksize on all static files so when ZDMF is invoked to encrypt those files, blksize gets changed at the same time (this would mean static files remain in the clear until the utility is developed, te...
    over 3 years ago in zDMF 1 Planned for future release

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