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request to enhance TSM documentation

As for compliance to PCIDSS requirement 8.2.1, our organization would need to find the following information in TSM documentationa) algorithm used by TSM to hash local authentication credentials b) location of the hashed local authentication crede...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Allow HANA DB backups to be monitored & managed via Admin Assistant

The Admin Assistant within TSM for ERP currently does not support HANA backups
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

TSM can't report that an object is a symbolic link

When attempting to restore a subdirectory structure we encountered a situation where a symbolic link had been replaced with a subdirectory (with contents). The TSM Backup Archive Client completed the restore but reported an error: ANS4007E Error p...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

SVC MPIO Driver Version

Add to SVC the ability for it to show the mpio driver version being used by its connected nodes. Nodes being the ones using SVC not SVC nodes in the cluster.
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

MPIO driver for connected nodes

Add to SVC the ability for it to show the mode the mpio driver is in for its connected nodes. Nodes being the ones using SVC not SVC nodes in the cluster.
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TSM for VE reporting unsuccessful backup

TSM for VE, version 7.1.2, that skips VM during backup of SRM VMs generates a SUCCESFUL=NO in the summary table
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Is a defect

OEL Oracle Enterprise Linux Client Support for TSM Backup

Need to validate that TSM will support OEL (Oracle Enterprise Linux) as an operating system option in CMS for the CSM4Oracle offering. OEL will become the default OS option for CMS and OVM and I need to ensure that it will be supported by the TSM ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

TDP SQL V7.x- The 1790 character restriction was added in the 7.1 release of TDP

TDP SQL V7.x- The 1790 character restriction was added in the 7.1 release of TDP
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Not under consideration

Allow ndmp backups to stack in versions 6.3 and later

Prior to v6.3 we had the functionality to stack backup processes when running ndmp backups. Rather than create extra scripts externally to limit them to 4 we require the functionality to be returned.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Add SSD check function during the V7000 Software Code Upgrade time frame.

I am a Client IT Architect in IBM Japan. From April 24 4AM, the software code update tasks started in V7000 and V7000 unified, but the code update did not complete successfully. It seemed to be hang up. The node Canister #1 was running and became ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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