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Spectrum Protect for Mail

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Support for the Domino client beyond V7.1 EOS (12/31/2021)

The Domino client is still on version 7.1 and will get out of support on 12/31/2021. Even if there is no further development planned, there should be support available for customers using Domino.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

Exchange 2013 support with TSM

Target date to support Exchange 2013 with TSM for Mail
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Planned for future release

TSM for Mail for 64bit Domino on Linux x64

There's currently no compatible TSM for Mail client available in order to backup a server running IBM Domino 9 - 64bit for Linux.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Planned for future release

TSM TDP Client for Exchange needs to much time listing the restorable Items

TDP Client for Exchange needs to much time to list the restorable items for a single item restore (around 8 min). Customer does not accept it and he is thinking of to change the backup software vendor.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 5 Planned for future release

Bypass VSS_E_MAXIMUM_NUMBERS_OF_VOLUMES_REACHED limitation on

We need a new feature to bypass the VSS Limit of 64 Volumes during the Backups.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

TDP Exchange doesn't support restoring mailboxes greater then 2,1 GB

We need to restore mailboxes into a single pst-files.Restoring process stopped after appr. 2,1 GBError message: ACN5935W The mailbox restore operation has only partially completed.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

TDP Domino support for RHEL6 64-bit

Currently, the latest TDP for Domino for Linux x86 is version 5.5.3, which supports only RHEL 5 for 64-bit systems. Most customers are using Domino with RHEL 6 64-bit. Do we have roadmap to support RHEL6 64-bit with TDP for Domino?
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Planned for future release

Certified TDP for Mail on Red Hat 6 x86_64

We have a TSM Server 6.3.3 and Domino Server 8.5.3 fp3 on Red Hat 6 x86_64, however the whole environment is certified except the "TDP for Mail".The "TDP for Mail" is already running on our environment and works fine.Therefore, I would like that I...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Planned for future release

No Exchange Dumster functionality by IMR

Since Exchange 2010, Mailbox and DB-dumpster are an important feature for customers. TDPE 6.x is always backing up these data via VSS/Snapshot technologies. Unfortenatly, TDPE 6.X is not able to restore these kind of datas. The customer who is usi...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

IMR restore account to powerful

Every IMR enabled windows account has to have the "Organization Management group" assigned, to full fill any IMR-Operation on any Microsoft Exchange version with any TDPE 6.x version. From security point of view, this not acceptable. Any security ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release