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Support Protection of SaaS Cloud Services

IBM needs to be able to provide a solution for protection of SaaS offerings, the key ones being:MS Office 365, Mail, OneDrive, SharePointGoogle AppsSalesforce.com
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

TSM V6: Show Us the Tables, Please

Please expose to the SELECT command in TSM V6 (and later, if any) all of the internal tables that TSM uses, with exceptions for things like passwords and other sensitive information.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Delivered

SP4VE File Level REcovery AD Trusted relationship environment

Today when implementing File Level Recovery(FLR) there is requirement of having the Windows Mount Proxy in the same Active Directory as the target virtual machines (the one to be recovered). What we would like to have is the ability to leverage AD...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

Support for Hyper-V guests on SMB MS Scale-Out File Cluster

Support is required for TSM4VE Hyper-V when Hyper-V guests are placed on a Windows Scale-Out File Server Cluster (SMB).
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

SPP patches released should contain readme for changes and fixes included with patch level

A customer who was instructed to apply SPP patch 1 (287) inquired as to the fixes or changes within patch 1 and was not able to locate a readme file with a list of changes for these patches. This readme or list of documented changes will help a cu...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

CANCEL PROTECT or DURATION on PROTECT STGPOOL

CANCEL PROTECT and/or a DURATION option for PROTECT STGPOOL is needed.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Command to move/migrate data from legacy storage pool to container pool

With the release of 7.1.3 and the new container pools there is currently no command that will let you migrate data from a legacy storage pool to the new container pool. This makes it much more complicated for us as we have to support multiple stor...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Server audit log for restore operations

In some scenarios it might be desirable, that restore operations for specific nodes can be logged - so that it later on is possible to do a traceback to identify a given account, that performed a restore of one or more objects on a client. The log...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Delivered

Spectrum Protect Node Replication - option to block DELETE BACKUP/ARCHIVE from replicating to target server

Add possibility to supress replicating "delete backup"/"delete archive" commands from node replication, possibly depending on setting "DISSIMILARPOLICIES" or "backdelete/archdelete=no for node on target server (possibly new parameter not to confus...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Delivered

ZFS Support for Spectrum Protect Server on Linux x86_64

Having support for ZFS filesystem on Linux x86_64 is a must. ZFS filesystem is a strong and reliable filesystem that exists for years in Solaris world.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

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