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    Litigation Hold Property on File Spaces.

    Provide an ability to prevent expiration processing to occur for a file space when a node becomes part of a "Litigation Hold" issue. The status of enabled would over-ride expiration processing of files/folders in the file space. Microsoft Exchange...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

    Ability to encrypt and store dsmadmc user credentials in a local file

    By default the TSM baclient encrypts node user credentials in a locally stored file. Unfortunately this functionality is not present with admin user credentials when using the Admin Client (dsmadmc). In order to automate dsmadmc commands within sc...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Add more specific error messages when DD SYSTCPD is missing in a batch JCL in z/OS that is trying to connect with TSM server.

    Add more specific error messages when DD SYSTCPD is missing in a batch JCL in z/OS that is trying to connect with TSM server. We would like to have more detailed error messages when the DD “SYSTCPD” with TCPIP information is missing.Now, when this...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Add filtervalue parm to catauditlog

    The catauditlog has no filter value parm.... can we please add one.
    over 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Allow TSM client logs to be brought back to server for analysis when server staff do not have access to client file system

    Allow TSM staff to bring back and use the TSM client logs to determine issues and error conditions at the time of backup failures
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Record TSM Backupset Tape utilization in the backupsets table

    At present the only way to obtain the tape utilization of a backupset is to look for the backupset completion message. once this rolls off the activity log it is not possible to get this information. I propose that an additional column is added to...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Add ability to create long term snapshot of TSM for VE data

    At present, TSM for VE is suitable for storing short to medium term data. Where regulatory type backups such as 1-7 year retention backups are required, a separate node using the traditional Backup Archive Client needs to be set up to perform this...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Add "number of copies/locations/storagepools" to q archive client output

    We want to be able to be able to see from the client how many locations an archive is stored. A location being a storage pool. ie if it's in two storage pools it is in 2 locations. An additional detail parameter could be displayed as egStoragepool...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    Use a linux web client to do NDMP restores

    There does not appear to be a way to restore a NDMP backup via a linux GUI client. This means that in order to do a restore a windows server needs to be provisioned, maintained and available purely for restoration purposes.
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    FCM: Option to only delete clone mappings

    FlashCopy Manager creates a system copy by performing a FlashCopy in the Storage System. This implies that the Storage System (like SVC) creates a copy relation between a source and target LUN. Some customers require to remove this copy relation t...
    over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Planned for future release

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