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    Enhancement to the new node 'decommission' command

    TSM 7.1.3 introduces a new command called 'decommission node' Can this be enhanced to have a date option to specify a future date other than the default retention policy? Example: "decommission node xxxx date=12/31/2015 ...."
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Copy Data Manager needs to support Metro Mirror or Metro Mirror with Consistency volumes

    CDM needs to support Metro Mirror in addition to global mirror change volumes. This would decrease the need for additional space on the primary storage.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future 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.
    over 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...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

    Advanced Analytics and cataloging for Spectrum Protect

    At present, Spectrum Protect does not seem to provide an advanced method of querying its database to find things such as duplicated files around the environment, file ownership, usage by owner, etc. This capability can make it difficult to find ob...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

    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...
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Stop File Content Backup on ACL Change

    Currently when an ACE is changed in an ACL it will cause the full file to be backed up again in TSM. For example, if we have a 200GB file and we change 1 ACE in the ACL it will cause the content of the 200GB file to be backed up again when the con...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

    Create empty nodeclass

    We need to create nodeclasses before we have nodes available to assign to the node class. This will allow us to set GPFS configuration for the nodeclass through our configuration management scripts and help ensure we have standardized configuratio...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 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...
    almost 11 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".
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

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