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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect (Operations Center)
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 28, 2011

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Extended firefox support

Currently the TSM AC only supports the browsers listed here: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21410467

As TSM can be run on a variety of OSes the supported list of non-Windows browsers (only Firefox (FF) 2 (from October 2006) and FF 3 (from June 2007) ) is very much out of date.

Noone in an IT department with responsibility for backups will be running such ancient browser versions, and in a recent local test, FF versions 5, 6 and 7 does not work at all. The TSM AC throws server-side NullPointer Exceptions and Java stacktraces almost at once.

Strangely enough Google Chrome in its latest version (v14) DOES work and does NOT produce the same errors FF5, 6 and 7 does.

The latest FF version that doesn't create server-side exceptions upon normal usage is version 4, which in this day and age of security vulnerabilities also is a big nogo.

It must be possible to make the TSM AC display its portlets and other plugins in a way that a modern browser - other than Internet Explorer - can manipulate the contents without creating server-side exceptions.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 12, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Tivoli
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 29, 2011

    Thank you for submitting this enhancement request, we do understand the requirement and the rationale behind it but unfortunately we currently do not plan to implement this function within TSM as it is dependent on the admin center infrastructure. we ARE going to be introducing other enhancement to our UI that will address this requirement's spirit.

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