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Storage Protect Family

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118 VOTE

Early warning when an ISP server certificate cert256.arm expires and a smooth method for renewing the certificate.

The server certificate cert256.arm (public key), expires after 10 years without warning. After that, access to the ISP server is no longer possible from one second to the next. The server must be stopped hard. A warning in the Actlog, e.g. three m...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

Missed and failed ANR messages do not display the actual hostname and of the node on all platforms.

Missed and failed ANR messages do not display the actual hostname and of the node on all platforms. ANR2579E Schedule schedule name in domain domain name for node node name failed (return code return code ). ANR2578W Schedule schedule name in doma...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Delivered
123 VOTE

Request for TSM to handle different retentions for Virtual Environments

To be able to perform Incremental forever backups using different retentions (such as daily, monthly and anually). Currently, TSM for VE cannot use the same set of backups to assign different retentions. Only one management class is possible.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Delivered

Spectrum Protect Plus - Office365 support needed

Office 365 is for 4Q18/1H19 on roadmap, support needed in Q42018customer has Office 365 in place and need local backup, if Protect Plus will not be available in Q418 he will look at CommVault
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Delivered

No quiesce option for VM backup

Along TSM-VE implementation, I have observed that lots of errors are generated due to virtual machine quiescence errors. Beause TSM has no control on how the operating systems are configured, and if there is any issue with the in guest VSS tools, ...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Delivered

Implement full LDAPS

We have a requirement from a client to implement all IBM tooling along with Spectrum Protect (8.1.2) via LDAPS. We have successfully proved the current form of integration with StartTLS but the client in question is a bank and has concerns around ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

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...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Delivered

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Backup of an Individual VM in an SLA Policy

Customer requires the ability to backup an individual VM in an SLA.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Delivered

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...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

snapdiff option for clustered ontap (netapp)

HelloWe have new Netapp filers in prodcution since 2 months and these use the new clustered ontap version (8.2). I have opened a PMR because the snapdiff option didn't work on these filers and the support told me that snapdiff was only possible on...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 11 Delivered

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