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User specified encryption password for data when using TSM backend

Add possibility to let user specify data encryption password when TSM server is being used as back-end - in order to ensure that data only can be restored by someone that knows the password.It should be possible to set the encryption password via ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Workstations 1 Not under consideration

fine-grained performance monitoring for protocol

The customer raised this requirement in their workshop in 2018:1. for protocol/NFS, PingAn could monitor the throughput of each exported points. PingAn raised the request to monitor the throughput from each clients to see which client is taking mo...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

AIX update Spectrum protect server instal manual to set maxuproc='4096'

I tried to "su" to tsminst1 userid, and got the following message.0403-030 the fork function failed. Too many processes allready exist.ulimit -Hc , Hd, Hf, Hn, and Ht allready set to unlimited.I ran the following command;lsattr -E -l sys0 -a maxup...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Migrate object storage to tape

For the upcoming object interface in Spectrum Scale it should be possible to migrate object data to tape.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Mailbox Item Level restore

There is functionality with ISP for Mail (Exchange) that let administrators to restore mailbox item from mailbox database backup, using Mailbox Restore Browser - functionality in ISP for Mail GUI, but it works up to MS Exchange 2013. With Exchange...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

Active Directory integration with TSM

Full Active Directory integration required as a single sign on solution
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Include VMware Tools in Spectrum Discover appliance

To be able to make consistent backups of Spectrum Discover appliance, please include open-vm-tools in the OVA version of Spectrum Discover, and please include upgrades of open-vm-tools as a part of the Spectrum Discover upgrade.
about 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Not under consideration

CEC status reporting enhancement

During a current issue with a DS8000 CEC failure (on a DS8880 device), the status of the CEC reported to either CSM or storage insights was that the CEC was active. This is apparently the result of the status coming back as ok simply because the e...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Session warning status in the event of DS8k CEC failure

When a DS8k experiences a CEC failure, CSM reports errors on LCUs that are associated with that CEC and changes the session status to Severe (giving the impression to the customer that there is a mirroring problem or scenario that would cause issu...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

Optimize HSM file scan logic to prevent recall and re-backup of stub files after file move.

At Present, when a HSM stub file is moved, a subsequent TSM backup recalls the file and backs this up again. This is a huge problem in large HSM installations and causes significant issues for the administrators supporting the system, and IBM supp...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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