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Improvements to Client Update targeting in Operations Center

The new automatic client updates built into Spectrum Protect Operations Center (OC) 8.1.3 does not currently support targeting of supported versions, nor filtering by OS version in order to do so manually. There are two improvements I would like t...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect 8.1.11 supports for RHEL 8.3

Spectrum Protect 8.1.11 don't support RHEL 8.3.We heard Spectrum Protect 8.1.13 will support RHEL 8.3 from STSC.My customer wants to use Spectrum Protect 8.1.11 with RHEL 8.3.We would like to support Spectrum Protect 8.1.11 for RHEL8.3.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Client-options to have node backup/store client logfiles in seperate log-filespace on TSM server

It would be nice, if a client node (BA-Client/TDP) automatically could upload logfiles to a seperate filespace on the TSM server at the end of a backup job - so that these logs could be extracted from the server staff and examined in case of any p...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

SP4VE Vmware: Duplicate UUIDs support for UI / File level recovery

SP4VE Vmware: Duplicate UUIDs support for UI / File level recovery for linux mountproxies
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Restore a VM without choose a specific /site/repository/archive cloud /etc

Hello support, We created 2 policy (SLA_site1 / SLA_site2 ) that we affected to Datastores on each site . So VM can be on the policy SLA_SITE1 or SLA_SITE2 depending of their location when we backup them. Now we want to restore a backup from a spe...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Tivoli Fastback for windows 2012 and exchange 2013

System: Tivoli Fastback for exchangeActor: Deploy new version The client for Exchange in Exchange 2013 doesn't work.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Microsoft Exchange 2 Not under consideration

SPP micro version

We are an IBM business partner and have small and large scale customers.Spectrum Protect Plus is set for 48 GB 1000 VMs with minimum ram requirement, but we also have many customers with 50 -100 VMs.These customers think 48 GB is too much for ram ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

RHV/oVirt support in Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments currently supports VMware and Hyper-V. This is a request for support of RHV/oVirt, as well.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Copy Data management duplicate job option

Customer would like the ability in the jobs tab.The ability to right click a job and to duplicate.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Allow for creation of canned "Data Protection Report" but limited to selected Policy Domains

Allow for creation of canned "Data Protection Report" but limited to selected Policy Domains, across one or more TSM servers, which would include client related sections such as backup success rate, activity over 24 hours, protected clients and nu...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration