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Storage Protect Family

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Support for Cloud Containers (such as COS/Cleversafe) from Linux on Power

Currently we have clients moving from old Power 7 boxes to new Power 8 boxes who want to start a new TSM server on Linux In addition clients are keen on COS/Cleversafe for more than just TSM. The lack of Cloud Container support from Linux on Power...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Multisite Connect

When backing up a big VMware environment it is necessary that the customer can select multiple vCenters as source and multiple Spectrum Protect Servers as Backup destination.Enable management of data protection for multiple vCenters from a single ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Disable the necessary SMB V1 to install product of TSM throught Installation Manager

Install Tivoli Storage Manager products using the Installation Manager it is necessary to have enable the SMB1 protocol.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Copy Data Manager Support for Oracle ACFS on AIX and Linux

Oracle's new filesystem implentation is called ACFS, taking over ASM. CDM supports virtual ACFS on Windows. Need to have support for physical filesystems on AIX and Linux supporting ACFS
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

Update Cloudstoragepool to make it immutable.

Hello Currently S3 immutable and immutable COS is supported but its only with define stgpool but its not supported do update current stgpool to make it immutable. Since S3 allow changes now, can we please have an update stgpool with enabledatalock?
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Change the IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Microsoft SQL Server autoselect to select backups prior to the backup endtime, instead of the backups prior to the backup starttime

The LSN (Log Sequence Number) checkpoint is created when an SQL backup concludes. This can lead to the autoselect function in IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Microsoft SQL Server, selecting a log backup between the Difffuls or Full backups start...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

TSM_Daily_Operations_Report not showing daily logical backup size

TSM_Daily_Operations_Report not showing daily logical backup size on TSM Operation Report. on page nameData Protection CLIENT BACKUPS WITH THE MOST DATA Over the past 24 hSize0.0 B
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

TSM Node replication should report warning instead of failure when associated node cannot be replicated

TSM 7.1.x reports a replication failure when a client node that has been setup for replication has an associated node which is not setup for replication or is a Receive Node. Replication succeeds, but process result is FAILURE, which is not the ca...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

SSL management enhancement

I have 2 related requests: Currently SP clients above V8.12/7.1.8 use TLS/SSL by default only encrypt authentication and session meta data. Full session encryption requires that ssl yes be added to the client dsm.opt/dsm.sys. I would like to see t...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

TS003991821

Being that the Distributed AG is a collection of multiple AAG's, my initial thoughts are that each AAG would be configured per the guide with a unique set of nodenames (ALWAYSONODENAME, TDP nodenames, and, if performing VSS backups, B/A Client nod...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

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