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Web Client GUI and

Please make TSM Web Client GUI compatible with Java 8 security requirements
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Restore of all filespaces of a TSM Node on a backupset with one command

I would need a additional function within the restore backupset where I can tell the TSM Server that it should restore all filespaces of a certain node on a backupset, not only one filespace per command.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Sanbolic Melio File System

Please provide support for the Sanbolic Melio FS. Other backup vendors support this product and a high dollar 'agency is using TSM backup and upgraded their environment to Melio File systems. TSM is able to see and backup this file system, but due...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Addition of product_id/flash_type and firmware_level into lsdrive command for FlashSystem and Storwize family Products

Please include the firmware_level and product_id (or flash_type in the case of FlashSystem 840) data field for integrated disk drives in the lsdrive command across all of the Storwize, SAN Volume Controller, FlashSystems, and other COMPASS-based S...
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Verbose output from expire inventory process

During expire inventory processing, filespaces for nodes that does not have any file to expire are silently skipped and never mentioned in the logs even if EXPI INV QUIET=NO (NO beeing the default value) is used. Add the option to specify QUIET=VE...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Bypass quiesce using TSM and Vmware 5

We need a solution to backup VM's "bypassing" the quiesce, If is possible work with VMware to help us
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

granting authority to a domain and subsequently adding nodes to the domain

- Granting tsm admin accounts node AUTH=ACCESS doesn't appear to allow them to log in to the locally installed BACLIENT GUI but the Web GUI works…. Is this Expected behavior? Client OWNER privilege works fine in both…. But what permissions does th...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Password is removed when entering the configuration tab on TSM for VE 7.1.1

We need a patch to TSM for VE so when you open configuration tab you do not removed any information specify the password for the system account.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Need more frequent updates of delivery unit space utilization

Currently usage information for file-based delivery units is updated only during a probe job, which in current versions of TPC cannot be configured to be run more frequently than once a day. We need to give our storage users more frequent up-to-da...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

SVC increase host count and IO group

Customer is requesting increase of host and IO group count on SVC.
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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