IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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All-in-one TSM backup appliance

TSM virtual appliance (VA) consisting of TSM server, TSM-VE and TSM Ops Center components, with support for using TSM VA with tape as a supported product in a customer production environment, also with the possibility to pair the appliance with an...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TDP for SQL - password exposed in task list

Product: TDP for SQL Description: During query, backup or restore operations, the admin password for accessing TDP for SQL GUI is exposed by hovering over the task list. Please see the attached image.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Possibility to throttle backup client resource utilization.

Possibility to throttle backup client resource utilization. Many times there are resource conflict for backups that are running “overtime”. The backup has been/is running until outside backup window. And the user, application owner want to cancel/...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

VM Quiescing

VM Quiescing
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Mdisk Mirroring

Provide the capability to mirror MDISKS similar to the existing ability to mirror vdisks.
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

TDP for Exchange Restore issues and documentation

Complaints about documentation and mmc console
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TSM fo VE / More fine granular user priviliges for Web GUI

Currently, the vSphere access permissions for any vSphere user that wants to use TDP for VMware GUI must be defined on datacenter level. That means, every user always sees everything and ALL VMs under the specified datacenter. He can do backup and...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Ability to lock/unlock a node in TSM Operations Center GUI

To make Operations Center GUI more useful for this account, we need to have the ability to lock/unlock client nodes from the interface, so that the person using the GUI for monitoring does not have to resort to running the commands at the command ...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

Allow V7000 monitoring

Allow monitoring of performance data using read-only account.
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

add password set/change in tdpoconf

Currently the tdpoconf utility only allows for password set/change actions via a terminal prompt. This prevents a scripted automated setup and doesn't seem consistent with the other TSM clients (ba client, tdp for sqlserver, etc) which already sup...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

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