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TS7700 MI Backup Setting

Automation for backup setting in TS7700. Create a scheduler mechanism in TS7700 MI or CLI (LIB Command) for automate the backup setting. Industry: Banking, Insurance, Finance and Health..
almost 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Disable alerts when SLA has no VM

We would like an option to disable alerts when SLA has no VM
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

1500 character limit for SQL statements in dsmadmc

Currently there is a limit that commands im dsmadmc can't be longer than 1500 characters else error ANS8028E will be raised.For most commands this limit is fine but for Spectrum Protect server scripts with complex SQL statements this is a real str...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 50 Future consideration

Vmmaxvirtualdisks bigger than 8 TB

We have customers with disk bigger than 8 TB.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Support DELL ECS S3 Object Lock for Spectrum Protect Backup

It is a major Spectrum Protect customer request. This customer already owns DELL ECS and wants to use it to host immutable backups. It should work as it is the case with Spectrum Protect on AWS Object Lock today.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Export node on container pools

The ability to export node data when using container pools
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

CSM support for cascaded 4-site replication

Our 4-site environment is a cascaded replication from A-B-C-D where A-B is metro mirror, B-C is a Global mirror, C-D is a global copy. I see in CSM 6.2.6, there is a 4-site support added but it is a MMGMGCreplication., which is A-B (MM), A-C (GM),...
over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Future consideration

Fix BKI6243E error for HANA with SSL enforced

TSM to work with sslEnforce = True parameter on SAP HANA database
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect (TSM) client for Linux on System z has no GUI client since 8.1.2 release

The IBM Spectrum Protect client for System z no longer has a means to access a newer release (8.1.2 or newer) server due to so called improvements in security between clients and server. Previously, clients were able to communicate with the server...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 6 Future consideration

Session status failed -99 received before schedule duration not ended

Hello, Description: Please be informed that when some SP client is reboot (Because OS patching) during the backup, SP server report event "failed -99". 6/12/24, 22:23:34 ANR0480W Session 2335563 for node [Node_name] (Linux x86-64) terminated - con...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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