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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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    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...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Globally switch on /off client instrumentation trace in Server Node definition or Client Option Set

    due to the fact of several security vulnerabilities (CVE-2016-8916) we need the ability to switch the new default value enableinstrumentation from on to off globally. This can ether be done with a client option in the client option set or throug a...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    Storage Protect client and possibly server Linux on ARM (ampere computing)

    We are evaluation running more workloads on ampere computing (containers but also std vms)I would like to use storage protect client for backup/archiving as step1 and also interested in the serverside if We cant run AIX or Linux on power then the ...
    12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

    i5/OS (AS/400) Client API Service extension

    Official announcement has been made in Developerworks Wiki that TSM 6.2 API for i5/OS will go out if support the 30th of April 2015.(see https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/IBM%20Backup,%20Recovery%20and%20Media%...
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    Support for Active Directory Item restore

    Today does IBM Storage Protect Backup-Archive Client only support to protect Microsoft Active Directory and do a total Disaster Recovery of Microsoft Active Directory. If we want to restore only one item in the Active Directory to get back from a ...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

    Support ZFS on Linux Client

    We use FreeBSD servers with ZFS filesystems on our large storage systems. Since there is no native FreeBSD Spectrum Protect Backup-Archive Client, we intend to use the Linux version leveraging FreeBSD's Linux runtime environment. But the SP Backup...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    Configuration of the ISP client 8.1.9.0 in a clustered environment (AIX and Linux).

    Configuration of the ISP client 8.1.9.0 in a clustered environment (AIX and Linux). As stated in TS003354444 it does not work though we follow the instructions in "https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_7.1.0/com.ibm.itsm.srv.doc/c_clu...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

    double library libTsmViSdk.so / unnecessary space usage

    We noticed that the libTsmViSdk.so library is included into the TIVsm-API64 and TIVSM-BA package: bash-4.4$ find /opt/tivoli/ -name libTsmViSdk.so /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/api/bin64/libTsmViSdk.so /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/libTsmViSdk.so bash-4....
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

    Temporarily suspend deactivation and expiration of backup data.

    We have received a number of customer requests, to temporarily suspend deactivation and deletion of backups due to retention policies. Often happens during and after ransomware attacks, where the customer have a temporary need for retaining deacti...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    tivsm-ba deb package fails to restart service on upgrade

    When working on verifying the fix for APAR IT35298 on case TS004574980 we noticed that the deb packages for the client doesn't properly restart the dsmcad service on upgrades. We were told that this wouldn't be fixed, and that the issue should be ...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

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