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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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RESTORE ONLY PERMISSIONS?

Restore only ACL permission
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Need support of Power 8/9 Compression HW chip on AIX Client for TSM Client

Hellowe have implemented a new Backup LAN with CISCO ACI Network 40 GBit and made backup over this seperate lan to tsm serverWe need to do a compression on the TSM Client side because the TSM Servers has currently not the capabilities to store unc...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect (TSM) client for Linux on System z has no GUI client since 8.1.2 release

The IBM Spectrum Protect client for System z no longer has a means to access a newer release (8.1.2 or newer) server due to so called improvements in security between clients and server. Previously, clients were able to communicate with the server...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 6 Future consideration

Support Windows 2019 on the SP B/A client

More and more customers are asking about when we will support Windows Server 2019 to be able to install the B/A client.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

ENCRYPTIONType AES256 can be reduced to AES128 with a client option set

Extend the client option srvoptsetencryptiondisabled that even the encryptiontype can't be overruled with a client options set.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

dsmcutil updatepw /validate:no doesn't accept FQDN commserver

dsmcutil updatepw /validate:no doesn't accept a FQDN server name by design. FQDN must be used with CA signed certificates and should therefore be supported.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Better client messaging for unsuported node replication settings needed

A better client messaging is needed to better find the root cause of incorrect node replication settings.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Request Compatiblity Between TSM Ver 7, Rel 1, Level 0.100 and Ver 5, Rel 5, Level 7.0 with Oracle Linux Server release 6.9

System: Storage Management Server for AIX - Version 7, Release 1, Level 0.100 and Storage Management Server for AIX-RS/6000 - Version 5, Release 5, Level 7.0.Actor: VALE Request: Vale is implementing an Oracle Cloud Migration Project in Oracle EXA...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protec for VE Change Last Backup Field in vCenter

When a VM Backup is done via vcenter after a complete Backup a Note will written to the machines guest note. There is no option to change a specific attribute in the "last backup" field. This would help my customer.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

snapdiff AIX

Please re-add snapdiff functionality to the AIX dsmc. This exists in 7.1 but was dropped in 8.1.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

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