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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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    Prevent Web B/A client file level restore port conflict with WAS ports

    Customer identified during the Spectrum Protect web client implementation that its ports (9081) conflicts directly with WAS (Websphere Application Server) ports that's is being in use by their banking online production applications. Thus this beha...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    new Spectrum Protect Client API to provide "QUERY OCCUPANCY" details + possibly "Q STGPOOL capacity details

    Hi,The SPFS solution is a virtual filesystem that makes it possible to mount Spectrum Protect server storage directly on the server, so that it is possible to protect almost anydata with Spectrum Protect using normal file operations. SPFS uses Spe...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    dsmc - more producer threads per filesystem

    Modern SAN storage should not be limited to one producer thread per client filesystem during backups, nor 4 producer threads per DSMC instance. Requesting:A) RESOURCEUTIL max value should be higher, perhaps 20. B) New option, RESTHREADSPERFS, to s...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    TSM Client Support for ZFS on Linux filesystems

    ZFS has been ported to Linux distributions, namely, Redhat Linux and other SysV environments. This RFE proposes to enable support for ZFS on Linux filesystems as a natively supported filesystem for backup and archive via the standard Linux TSM BA ...
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    Please add the connected servername to the dsmadmc window title

    If you have multiple TSM Administrative Commandline windows open you can easily loose track on which is which. It would be very useful if the servername one connects to is added to the title of the dsmadmc window.
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    rc.dsmcad RC script should be able to stop individual dsmcad processes

    TSM for VE datamover server requires multiple dsmcad RC scripts.The TSM for VE installation manual descripts how to copy the rc.dsmcad script into /etc/init.d and name it something different and how to change the export statements.The service comm...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Not under consideration

    Let BA client access replicated data when dissimilar policies are on

    I work for a BP, long term working with ADSM and TSM (started when I was IBM) and now with SP. I always tried to keep informed about new features and this time we found a customer interested to REPLICATION to protect data and extend retention with...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    NDMP Restore function for normal GUI client

    Please implement NDMP filelevel restore functions in the normal GUI client like they were in the webgui client.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect : Protect stg from Directory container to Cloud Container

    Current TSM do not support Protect STG from Directory container to Cloud container. with Cloud Teiring its support Move of the data from directory container to Cloud container, but we dont have a way to only copy of the data. When you dont have lo...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 7 Not under consideration

    Add ability to suppress ANS1115W ( File skipped due to exclude ) message

    SITUATION1. TSM allows the exclusion of files and folders from its backup regime.2. At present, TSM will produce error messages for files/filders skipped due to the configuration.3. The messages are classed as 'warning' even though this is clearly...
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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