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Canceling sessions by name

Running sessions can be cancelled only by session id. .Please add a funcionality to cancel all sessions from one node with a single command. Further: Please add a option to cancel all sessions and prevent reopening of sessions by a node. Thank you...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

A new policy update from BA client .optfile that does not allow overwrite a management class from BA client.

A server admin can update the .optfile from BA client by human error causing an overwrite of a management class at Spectrum Protect server, that is causing unexpected expiration of backups. For example, a configuration mistake pointing the .optfil...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

Azure SQL Database and Managed Instance Backup

Customers are migrating SQL databases to Azure, running them either as Azure SQL Databases or Azure SQL Managed Instances. There is no IBM documentation which acknowledges whether any of the Spectrum Protect products support backup of SQL PaaS in ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Oracle ACFS Support for Copy Data Management

Navy Federal Credit Union (NFCU) is evaluating CDM v2.2.9 for Oracle. SQL has passed the eval. Oracle is running ACFS as the standard at NFCU. Looking for CDM support for ACFS
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

send encrypted backups through tdpve iffull/ifincr method

send tdpve client backups with method iffull and ifincr encrypted to server as it was with methods full and incr before
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Log backup of SQL system databases

Log backup of SQL system databases should be supported in Spectrum Protect Plus
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Operations Center - Management class - Custom retention time

When defining a management class from the Operations Center, there are only predefined values for the Backups, Keep Extra backups etc.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

GFS2 Support with TSM

GFS2 File systems are not supported with TSM currently and would like to see if we could enhance the support in future TSM versions. We are running TSM server version 6.2.4 now ( will be upgrading to 6.3 by next month) and client version used is 7...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Image encryption

By not allowing a image backup to be encrypted a potential security breach may arise. The particular situation is that a few files in a filesystem are encrypted. A image backup will negate that as it stores all files/blocks and all files will be r...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Backup of Cloud Apps

More and more applications are available online in the cloud such Exchange Online, SharePoint online, Dropbox and OneDrive Business.This areas do many think it's including backup, but the backup is limited and not even close to many customers SLAs...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration