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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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Renew Certificate for all clients

Now have many of our IBM Storage Protect Server been running for years and it is time to renew our certificate especially our self-signed version that many of our installations has been configured with. In the 8.1.20 Server version is it now possi...

Introduce Timeout in DSMCAD

By default, dsmcad doesn't have any time out value. Post Rapid Force NVA 6.6.128 upgrade, the connection of NVA Scan is not closing as expected. Post Scan of TSM Client on dynamic or dedicated dsmcad port, the connection stays as active, dsmcad se...

Allow IBMi to backup to Spectrum Protect (again)

IBMi used to be able to backup using a TSM client to a TSM/Spectrum Protect Server.With IBM Protectier TS7650 being removed, our IBM i core banking environment no longer has a disk-based BRMS VTL to backup to.We have IBM Spectrum Protect running a...

TIVsm-WEBGUI REST API documentation

Having installed and configured TIVsm-WEBGUI package the REST API is visable an useable. But no documentation exists.

Support for Ontap 9.5 with BA Client

There is no documentation for support of BA client backups of Ontap 9.5 on NetApp appliances. The highest mentioned is Ontap 9.3 supported bu 8.1.4. I have a customer that is about to migrate to a new data center and as part of this move replace t...

Snapdiff backup support for SP 8.1.4.1 Windows client and OnTap 9.3P2

We currently use Spectrum Protect 8.1.2 client to do SnapDiff backup of OnTap 8.3.2P7 file shares. We would like to be able to do the same using Spectrum Protect 8.1.4.x doing SnapDiff backups of OnTap 9.3P2 file shares. This functionality is crit...

Require Generic TSM Client Login Failure Messages

TSM Backup/Archive Admin Client and Client display failures that are too explicit, and the requirement is that it is generic, in order to meet security requirements:.For this TSM issue, one message overlaps, that for the wrong password. This shoul...

Clustered Data Ontap version 9.0 GA

Unable to Backup our New Cluster running:Current Cluster Version: NetApp Release 9.0: Fri Aug 19 11:04:54 UTC 2016
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Delivered

Tivoli Storage Manager Mac client support for macOS 10.12 (Sierra)

Add support for macOS 10.12 (Sierra) to the TSM Mac client.

Increase the command history buffer in dsmadmc to WAY more than 20.

The command history feature (up arrow) in the dsmadmc and dsmc command line interfaces has been limited to 20 previous commands for over 25 years. Assuming that this was some sort of memory limitation in the distant past, can you please increase t...