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Provide strong authentication between TSM Server and TEC applications

The Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Server application should be able to provide strong authentication to Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) application, in order to provide security between both TSM and TEC servers and also to attend the ITCS 104 secti...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Server migration processing should be able to use more than 1 process with data from only 1 node in the primary disk pool

Server migration processing (from disk to tapes) should be able to use more than 1 process in order to use multiple tape drives in parallel emptying the disk pool despite data in the primary disk pool is from 1 node only.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

SVC planned maintenance for vdisk mirror

My customer is planning to use SVC stretched cluster as a high available solution for the two data centers that are located close to each other (less than 1 km distance). They are asking for a function to "suspend" the vdisk mirror on one side wit...
about 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

SVC planned maintenance for vdisk mirror

My customer is planning to use SVC stretched cluster as a high available solution for the two data centers that are located close to each other (less than 1 km distance). They are asking for a function to "suspend" the vdisk mirror on one side wit...
about 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Slient install stop TSM Client Scheduler

When performing a silent install certain files such as the dscenu.txt file are not updated because the client scheduler service is running and has the file open. When performing a GUI install it prompts to stop the service before it continues, but...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TSM support for Oracle Linux and Oracle VM Server

We need support for this implementation:- Installation of Tivoli Storage Manager BA client, Tivoli Storage Manager API and Tivoli Data Protection for Oracle on operating system Oracle Linux 6.1;- Installation of Tivoli Storage Manager BA client on...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

TSM support for Oracle Linux and Oracle VM Server

We need support for this implementation:- Installation of Tivoli Storage Manager BA client, Tivoli Storage Manager API and Tivoli Data Protection for Oracle on operating system Oracle Linux 6.1;- Installation of Tivoli Storage Manager BA client on...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Individual File Restore Security (SSH)

Individual File Restore under Linux currently requires a passwordless ssh access from any client which wants to use individual file restoreto a Windows machine as user Administrator. This rises multiple implications: Security: You can log in to th...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

TSM for Virtual Machines LAN Free Backup Limitations

Faster VMware virtual machine backup. Using LAN Free, you can only start backup for as many virtual machines as you have tape drives available. This puts a severe limitation on the number of virtual machines that you can simultaneously backup. Thi...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Patra:SAS Tape Problem

We would like TSM to supoort SAS Tape. TSM detect TS3100 as LTO device class but TSM detect SAS tape as GENERIC. So we can't restore data with different device class. SAS Tape Model:7216-1U2IBM Multi-media Enclosure - DAT160 SAS Tape Drive - HHLTO...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

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