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Storage Protect Family

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Support to include/exclude Nested Vmfolders

I was thinking of using VMFOLDER to select VMs. While trying to figure out the syntax for specifying a nested folder, the link (http://www-01. ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21432938) was brought to my attention. Basically, TSM VE only allows ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

CDM support for VVols

Customer is looking for CDM to support full VVols functionality. VVols is running in production in this customer site.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

VSAN and Sp. protect for VE

I need for a very big French customer that IBM spectrum Protect for VE VMware support backup / restore VM set up on VSAN
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Adding a time out for server migration

Dear SP development team, We have been using TSM for decades long since v5.x and upgraded our TSM server to V8.1.10 last year. However, the new release v8.1 has not changed the behavior during migration: As we noticed some migration process hang t...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

backport (AIX) 8.1.14.x server fixes to 8.1.13.x

There are a number of fixes included in Spectrum Protect server 8.1.14.0 (plus some DB2 security fixes just postponed to 8.1.14.100). However, 8.1.14.x drops support for AIX 7.1. Having to also upgrade (still supported) AIX 7.1 to AIX 7.2 or 7.3 j...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

SPP: use OpenJDK for vSnap VADP Proxy

Currently SPP installs openJDK pkg during installation and upgrade phase. However Oracle Java is still beign used for VADP proxy of vSNAP server. Due to licensing we would appreciate if only one Java has been used.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

domain.vmfull VMdatastore wildcards

TSM for VE with TSM Client 6.4 allow for automatic discovery and inclusion of virtual machines in FullVM backups by using domain.vmfull dsm.opt option.Option domain.vmfull allows to specify different options in order to include the "right" list of...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Please Expand the Maximum value for HSMMAXRECALLTAPEDRIVES

The maximum value for HSMMAXRECALLTAPEDRIVES is too low to use. I wish the maximum value can be set up to 128.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

TSM HADR with windows

Hi,i need a option for dsmserv which will prevent the restart of db2 or a flag whill start db2 with force in a hadr environment parameter. problem: 1. hadr configuration and the primary system went down2. on the standby i could start db2 with star...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

allow non default dsm.opt and tdpexch.cfg file for remote management

It is possible to configure the MMC GUI on Exchange server to use non default dsm.opt and tdpexch.cfg files. Managing backup from a non Exchange server is not possible if the Exchange server is configured with non default dsm.opt and tdpexch.cfg.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration