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TSM tablespace version

Customer would like to make sure that once they upgrade from TSM 6.2 to TSM 7.1 their TSM database tablespaces will be updated to latest level in a seamless way. They are worried of what happened with the migration of tablespaces between 9.5 and 9...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

NTFS 8dot3 support during System State restore

The users have good data protection feelings, if the restore process is simple and straight.But after a Windows systemstate restore during Bare Metal Restore, the remaining filesystem restore shows error ANS1796I because 8dot3 is not activated.mor...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Tivoli rpm must be signed

To comply to PCI regulation, a subcontractor needs that software installed on Linux systems be signed.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TSM for DB support on Oracle Linux systems

Wonder if IBM can extend their support for Linux OS to other flavor than Red Hat and Suse especially Oracle Linux. Thanks.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

user-defined Encryption Standard (like China national encryption )support

Many customers in China, for example the large banks and state-owned enterprise, have the need for using their own encryption method to process/transfer their data. China also has the China National Data Encryption Standard which is mandatory to c...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Storwize SDS installation on SoftLayer hardware

To ensure that the Storwize SDS solution can be run and supported on the hardware options (or key subset) that is currently defined in the SoftLayer server catalog (https://store.softlayer.com/configure).
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TSM Supoort for NDMP Backup of NetAPP cDOT Running SVM-SCOPED

We have a client that has deployed new NetApp cDOT cluster and wants to run in SVM-SCOPED mode but can not because TSM NDMP backups do not support cDOT Cluster Aware Backups in SVM-SCOPED only NODE-SCOPED.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Cache limit

Hello developers,we have bank customer with security requirements for DMZ servers. During test of DOS attack from DMZ on storage via lun assigned to DMZ servers we found that cache is overcommited during the attack. Problem is in cache partitionin...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Control storwize via san

Hello Developers,we have some problems with customer which complaining that storage can't be handled/managed via san. It means that expect soemthing as Gatekeepers in EMC or HORM instance in Htachi, which all control own luns or Remote copy via sa...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Burst option for I/O throttling

Hello developers,we have some problems with implementation security standard in our bank customer. He requested in contract that we have to implement protection against hackers also on storage level. He found that he can do DOS attack agains Storw...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

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