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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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    Display retentionset in the BA client

    The new Retention set function (aka OneProtect) is great but from the BA client (or TSM4VE) it's not possible to see which retention sets that are available. Id like to get the info on "q retset" info in the server into the BA client. On the cli s...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    multiple backup sessions per FS

    It would be interesting to be able to backup a single big FS with multiple backup sessions without the need to define VirtualMountpoints ( besides virtualmountpoints is not available on windows ).If the DSMC could automatically scan the directory ...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 7 Not under consideration

    It would be good to have an automated way for taking care of acfs file system backups

    TSM does not currently support acfs file systems (even though they can be backed up as "regular" file systems and as long as they are specifically declared as domains in the dsm.sys file (or elsewhere). We are currently facing a scenario where our...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    non-root users access behaviour with version SP 8

    Customer needs for SP version 8 to allow "other users" (non-root users and not "authorized users" for SP point of view) to use dsmc in order to restore their files The requirement is to continue with behaviour as per TSM 7.16 (https://www.ibm.com/...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    Enable Storage Protect backup archive client testflag SKIPDATEMISMATCHWARNING for restore and retrieve

    In a replication failover scenario, the Storage Protect backup/ archive client is comparing the local stored last backup/ archive date with the date stored on the Storage Protect server. If the local date is older than the date stored on the Stora...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Under review

    Powershell interface to dsmc and dsmadmc

    Powershell is becoming the scripting language of choice for windows. It is difficult to call existing dsmc and dsmadmc command line tools from powershell and reasonably process the output. Powershell has an object pipeline model and file output do...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Ubuntu on s390x support for Spectrum Project Client

    Originally requested in 2019 and was marked for future consideration, IBM support Ubuntu on s390x Linux on Z however does not provide a backup client for Spectrum on an IBM platform s390x Linux on Z.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

    Missing WEB-client in ISP 8.1.2 and later

    We updated one of out ISP-Servers (AIX) to Version 8.1.3 a few days ago. After having finished that I also updated one Windows Agent to BA-Version 8.1.2 (file Server). Everything is working fine except the fact, that the WEB-Client is no longer su...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    B/A Client 8.x support for Solaris (SPARC on 11.4)

    Customer is requesting support of B/A client on 8.x for SPARC Solaris Servers. Currently are backing up the environment with 7.x client but it's reaching EOS in Dec/2021.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    For Storage Protect Backup/Archive client add a dsmcad systemd unit file that is instance aware.

    Sometimes it is useful to run multiple dsmcad instances on a single host. Each will backup different file spaces to different tsm backup nodes. To accomplish this additional dsmcad systemd unit files must be created. systemd unit files have this t...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Under review

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