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Storage Protect Family

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Adding Mmgt-Class to the "query event" output

There is a customer requirement to generate a report from event table .. to have a daily overview from client backup .. to have start time, endtime, and status from each backup. Additionally the customer need the output from the client, which Mgmt...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Functionality already exists

Changes for ISP Server/Client

Will there be an Systemd-Daemon file one day for better controlling of the system processes of the ISP software?Because the ISP server and client software haven't yet an native systemd-daemon and are using still the old SysV-Init-Daemon files whic...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect required two separate solutions for virtual and physical systems

My client needs two separate solutions for virtual and physical systems. They need IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for virtual systems and Spectrum Protect for physical systems, and that's a pain. It would be an improvement if they were combined.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Functionality already exists

Database impossible to Backup and migrate to other platforms

Before assisting a customer using Windows that wanted to migrate to using UNIX, my client did not see any drawbacks to IBM Spectrum Protect. However, IBM Spectrum Protect does not offer an option to migrate from other operating systems. Additional...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Functionality already exists

Central confuguration of Enableinstrumentation parameters by client option set

ENABLEINSTRUMENTATION is set to "on" by default and can only be turned off locally via option in dsm.sys/dsm.opt. It can be highly advisable to be able to set this option dynamically via client option set option along with instlogmax and instrlogn...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Allow exclude vm disks in the TSM4VE GUI (or select/include only particular disks to be backed up for a VM)

We utilise TSM4VE to take backups of the system disk only of virtual servers like SQL. TSM4VE requires manual entries in the dsm.opt file. This is cumbersome and error prone, and having inclusions for disks available in the GUI would make this pro...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

allow VM exclusion via tagging in Spectrum Protect Plus

please add the capability to exclude VMs based upon specific vSphere Tags, in addition to the ability to include via tagging.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Allow Spectrum Protect Operations Centre to validate internet access via a proxy

New Feature in Operations center to manage client autodeploy us currently inoperative if the Customer is running a WEB Proxy as the current release 8.1.4 or the OC cannot authenticate itself for web access and hence can't download the required pac...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect upgrade - pre-requiste failures

Can the pre-req checking during the install/upgrade actually check EVEYTHING before starting the install process?
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TDP for SQL 2012 in Windows 2016

We have 2 Windows Server 2016 with both SQL 2012 and SQL 2016 instances.We need a TDP client version compatible with these three components, so we can backup all Databases in both SQL versions.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration