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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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Lustre File System Support

In our many ongoing deals, "Lustre Support" is required by our customer.Luster Filesystem is supported by many other vendors, and our many potential customers have already introduced Luster Filesystem to their systems.Moreover, Luster support is o...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management to support FS and Application for the same client

An Application Server Provider is defined as an application (HANA, System Cache, SQL, Oracle) or File System. Why not both Oracle and File System? for example
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

include/exclude a directory structure from archive

include.archive and exclude.archive options do not work for a directory structure. F.i. it is possible to exclude files from directory /exampleDir using definition 'exclude.archive "/exampleDir/*"' and also from all its subdirectories using defini...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Future consideration

Add error handling to dsmc to avoid looping asking questions to non-existent terminal

dsmc does not handle End Of File (EOF) on stdin gracefully when the situation arises that it needs to prompt and ask a question. Instead of realizing that there is no terminal attached and abort gracefully it gets stuck in a loop forever saying: T...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

Backups of Hard links

Backup of Hard linked files will backup the data blocks once for every hard link.This behavior, where TSM treats all links as regular files, is not optimal since a backup will need to transfer the data more than needed.This should be optional so t...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Bind management classes according to file size

Currently management classes are assigned by the backup archive client and are based solely on directories names and/or files names.In some cases, it might be better to assign a management class to a file size range.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

IBM SP Client/API encryption

Allow the client and api to use external source for encryption keys storage, like SKLM.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Future consideration

Non-SSL adhoc node restoration not possible to initiate

Non-SSL Node adhoc restoration not possible configured to IBM Spectrum Protect Server 8.1.3 We have active directory authentication enabled for our spectrum protect admin session which requires SSL. But all of our nodes are still running in Non-SS...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Central confuguration of Enableinstrumentation parameters by client option set

ENABLEINSTRUMENTATION is set to "on" by default and can only be turned off locally via option in dsm.sys/dsm.opt. It can be highly advisable to be able to set this option dynamically via client option set option along with instlogmax and instrlogn...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Restore VM for Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines to be enhance to add parameter destinationfilespec

We need to restore Hyper-V virtual machines backup to different server at different location. Since this functionality is not available in restore vm command we are not able to restore VM to different lcoation. As per IBM L2 support TSM doesn't su...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

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