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Backing up data to Replication Spectrum protect server when Production TSM server id down for many days.

When the production Spectrum Protect server is down or having Disaster scenario, SP admins should go through tiresome steps to backup the data to replication SP Server. For each client, we will need to below steps for customers having 4000+ client...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Support for TLS on SMTP servers (Office 365)

If a customer using office365, mails from SPP using office 365 can't be sent, because TLS SMTP is not supported.Support for TSL SMTP is needed.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

SP Client LNX set offline password

We are deploying linux systems automatically without any user interaction. For this delivery we need to set the password for the SP Client after installation. There is no solution in SP Client linux to set password by scripts or command.On windows...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Add a link to the RFE (Request For Enhancements) community in the SPP UI

Add a link to the RFE (Request For Enhancements) community in the SPP UI
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add a link to the RFE (Request For Enhancements) community in the SP OC UI

Have a link from SP OC to the RFE community
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Have Spectrum Protect Plus integrate with Automated Ticket System

The customer has a desire for the alert system to interface with the Automated Ticketing System. This would allow that system to assign and notify individuals to respond to incidents on SPP
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

dsmc - more producer threads per filesystem

Modern SAN storage should not be limited to one producer thread per client filesystem during backups, nor 4 producer threads per DSMC instance. Requesting:A) RESOURCEUTIL max value should be higher, perhaps 20. B) New option, RESTHREADSPERFS, to s...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Need to add the functionality for VM multi-writer enabled disks backup. (Object. CBT-enabled VM having multi-writer disk(s))

Hello Team, We configured few VM backup In IBM Spectrum Protect Plus and those are getting failed due to multi-writer enabled on their disks. too resolve this issue, we raised a case (case # TS008530431). We get an update that in case is there is ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

TSM Client Support for ZFS on Linux filesystems

ZFS has been ported to Linux distributions, namely, Redhat Linux and other SysV environments. This RFE proposes to enable support for ZFS on Linux filesystems as a natively supported filesystem for backup and archive via the standard Linux TSM BA ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

WebClient file restore GUI can handle the password change when admin using FORCEPwr=yes

The WebClient file restore GUI can not handle the password change when admin using FORCEPwr=yes.This is neccessary to give customers the an webclient access which is uesed just by the person who is asked for web access to restore.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

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