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BackupSet tape Migration

We have backupsets created on 3592-JB tapes and we need to migrate these backupsets to 3592-JD tapes.We are in the process of discarding all JB tapes and TS1130 tape drive.We will have only TS1160 tape drives which can not read JB tapes.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

'dsmc i' should never re-backup restored-unchanged files

'dsmc i' should never re-backup restored-unchanged files
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum protect support for Huawei cloud

Currently in IBM reference, spectrum protect only support the following list of cloud object storage https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22000915.There are huawei cloud customer that wanted to see that they want to use spectrum prote...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Support for Spectrum Protect Container Storage Pools Greater Than 1PiB

Currently, container storage pools have a limit of 1PiB per Protect server. For backing up very large environments (such as Spectrum Scale), this can lead to a proliferation of Protect servers, increasing the complexity of the solution.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

NetApp SnapDiff Backup without Domain Admin Rights

We need to do a SnapDiff-Backup of our NetApp. The backup-user must not be a member of the Domain Administrators group.At this time there is no possibility of doing the backup without the membership of Domain Administrators.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect - Request for unique identifier for summary items

Please see attached file.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Messages Without Message IDs

A product family such as IBM Spectrum Protect has a great many components, each of which can have hundreds or even thousands of messages. With so many messages, the customer will need some method to find explanations. In general, many messages are...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Add parm to allow some control over the calculation of available space to avoid false positive ANS1311E errors

Add a parm that could specify the estimated amount of data reduction to use when calculating if the storage pool has sufficient space. so setting this parm to 75 would tell TSM to assume the pending backup is going to get at least a 75% reduction,...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

SP Command builer stand-alone port for windows/linux

Create a stand-alone or dsmadmc integrated version for windows and/or Linux of the SP Command builder currently integrated in the SP-OC.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Summary table not getting updated while there was no data transfer

We have backup running daily for the node FITKUL0001. It seems that the data on this server rarely changes. Hence the backup runs successfully and no data is being transferred as there is no need to. So far it is fine for us as it is successful. T...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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