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Incremental backup support in NDMP based backup for IBM TSM 7.1.

Require Incremental backup support for NDMP based backup in IBM TSM.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Enable the use of VPC Endpoint Interface URL for S3 bucket access when defining Cloud Container Storage Pool in Operations Ce

When defining a cloud container storage pool, an option of 'Other' URL is given, and in the CLI a CLOUDUrl can be specified with a custom URL. Instructions say to use the region S3 endpoint URL. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-protect/8.1.11?...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

configure Tape drive Cleaning Frequency after written TB or used time instead of "as needed" or "999MB"

The default available Cleaning Frequency managed by TSM is restricted to 999GBSince LTO the recommended Frequency is based on working (write) hours for about 100hr or TB of written Data.For HP Drives it is recommended to clean every 100 R/W-hours....
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

TSM for VE support of VRA

TSM support for vRA (VMware vRealize Automation Center) based VMs
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Rebinding Archives between management classes

We have two managment classes for archiving data; one mgmt class expires archives after twelve months (temp mgmt class) and the other does not expire archives( never expires). We have a requirement to set some of the archives under temporary mgmt ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

support Ceph S3 as Cloud Container storage backed

please add Ceph S3 (using the rados gateway) as a supported Cloud Container storage backed
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Add TSM4VE control files to TSM DB

Currently a diskpool is required to hold control files for TSM4VE backups. This data would be much easier to manage if it were located directly in the TSM DB
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Mailbox restore wizard

The procedure of restoring item level requires me to install TDP for Exchange on one of the DAG nodes and start the mailbox restore wizard. Unfortunately you HAVE to install TDP for Exchange on the DAG node.In our days customers wants to remove an...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

DS8k Metadata volume

On 8/3/2018 the HPFE in our DS8886 lost two drives at the same time, in the same rank. To recover we had to delete the entire storage pool because there is a volume of meta data for each storage pool, and that pool happened to land it on the faili...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Individual File Restore Security (SSH)

Individual File Restore under Linux currently requires a passwordless ssh access from any client which wants to use individual file restoreto a Windows machine as user Administrator. This rises multiple implications: Security: You can log in to th...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration