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    Business unit field per VM

    For reporting purpose it would be useful to have an option to add information per VM.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Alerts frequency for Spectrum Protect Serves

    We would like to request that an update to the code for the alerts frequency to be an adjustable settings, since as of now, it alerts every hour and cannot be changed.Thanks!
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    CDM support for VVols

    Customer is looking for CDM to support full VVols functionality. VVols is running in production in this customer site.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    TSM for VE - Add Support for Creating and Adding Custom SSL Certificates to the TSM4VE Server

    TSM for VE installs a self signed certificate. I need to use CA signed certificates. No matter what I do, TSM for VE always displays the default IBM supplied certificate. What is the procedure for installing custom certificates on my TSM for VE se...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Rebinding Archives between management classes

    We have two managment classes for archiving data; one mgmt class expires archives after twelve months (temp mgmt class) and the other does not expire archives( never expires). We have a requirement to set some of the archives under temporary mgmt ...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

    support cephfs with full ACL support

    cephfs is a scalable filesystem with full posix campatibility. The need to support this filesystem with full ACL support is needed.
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    Add pre and post scripts to automatic backup-archive client deployment TSM

    The automatic backup-archive client deployment TSM should add to the client updater the ability to run scripts, or at least some custom commands, before and after the upgrade.
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Individual File Restore Security (SSH)

    Individual File Restore under Linux currently requires a passwordless ssh access from any client which wants to use individual file restoreto a Windows machine as user Administrator. This rises multiple implications: Security: You can log in to th...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

    Move Data from old copy pool to new copy pool

    In order to handle tape media upgrades or tape recording format upgrades, customers need the ability to MOVE data from an old copy pool to a new copy pool
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Support for spanning logical volumes on TS7770 with zTape Air-Gap Tape Exporter (FC5995)

    A customer owns a solution for some of his backup jobs based on old native tape drives C07 / TS1140 whose End of Service already passed.  We’d like to replace it with a TS7770 with zTape Air-Gap Tape Exporter (FC5995) – which is a TS7770...
    over 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1

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