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Storage Protect Family

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INCLUDE INACTIVATION DATE IN QUERY BACKUP

Include a new column showing the inactivation date of inactive objects in the output of dsmc query backup. i.e. dsmc q ba -ina -subdir=yes -showinactivationdate /mydir/* Also, it would be vastly simplify parsing if the dsmc client could do tab del...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect/TSM NDMP Support for Fujitsu ETERNUS AX/HX series

We would like to see the ETERNUS AX/HX series added to the list of supported devices so that we can backup the system using Spectrum Protect/TSM and NDMP. https://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/computing/storage/all-flash-arrays/ax.htmlhttps://ww...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

IBM SPP Should keep job logs for restores longer

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus keeps job logs for restores only 3 days. This is not sufficient for historical reporting purposes. The retention of job logs, including those for restore operations should be user-configurable, and the default should be s...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Solaris x86 TSM Client support for Version 7.x

We have productive Solaris Servers both x86 and SPARC on Solaris 10 and 11. We run our SAP-Environment and other Services and continue to deploy further Functionalities on Solaris. Most of our central Products run on Solaris. There are no plans to...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Not under consideration

BMR -TSM client should contain a very small set of files to run on WinPE (w/o java etc)

BMR -TSM client should contain a very small set of files to run on WinPE (w/o java etc).TSM Client is bigger than the rest of a WinPE BootCD and also containing unneeded files like JAVA. This need more time to load the image into RAM during boot a...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

More ways to get occupancy on data en dedup storage

In a hosted environment it would be nice, if there were several different/more advanced ways to get occupancy amount for data stored in deduplication storage pools.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Planned for future release

BMR to dissimilar hardware

We frequently have to perform BMR to dissimilar hardware. This has to be done using something like Christie and the functionality is not availabile in Spectrum Protect. However it is available in competitor products. Both Avamar and Net Backup hav...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Domain statement honoured by archive process

Many customers need to do monthly/yearly Full backups. An archive is not an option since all filespaces to be included in the archive must be manually added. Systemstate info is not included in an archive and the DOMAIN statement is not honoured b...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Deactivate Data for Sybase ASE Backups

Would be nice if Sybase ASE API backups can bemarked inactive using the "deactivate data"command. Currently we rely on a home grown script which is not that reliable.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

CDM integration with Power VMR-DR

Today CDM does not support integration with VIOS on AIX as it does with ESXi. VMR-DR integration on the power side of the house would allow for a complete package to be presented for customers on AIX looking to do Disaster Recovery.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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