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Storage Protect Family

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SPP Report section is limited and restricted by predefined shape which cant cover customer needs.

We need to have option to remove lines from report to report just relevant data for customer. For example: Predefined VM Backup History report contain : SLA Policy, Protection Time, Status Backup, Storage Backup, Size, Backup Speed,VM: HOSTNAME,Hy...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Use seperate TCP port for node replication - preferably only communication initiated from the source server

When using node replication, it should be possible to specify a seperate TCP port, that can be used for node replication (and the dsmadmc command line should not be able to communicate on this port).From a network security perspective, it is not a...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Oracle log backup status

The status of the Oracle log backup is found only in the job log. We would like the log backups to be more visible and easy to check for success or failure. If a failure of the Oracle DB is bad, we need to see a failure on the backup job on the da...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Change QUERY ACTLOG output to match terminal window width

I'm not sure if this RFE applies to the server or dsmadmc client, but the request is to change the behavior of the QUERY ACTLOG command output to stretch (and wrap if necessary) to the current width of the terminal window where it is running.Other...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Modify 'Protected and Unprotected VMs' report to allow display of only unprotected VM

The current report shows both protected and unprotected VMs in report and allow to hide Unprotected VM. However there is no report which can display only unprotected VM. Business Justification: We have thousands of VMs part of protection and their...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow JBB daemon to process files without a full backup completion stamp

Allow JBB daemon to start track files immediately, and upon request from dsmc using jbb, give the file list straight away. The full backup can be run in parallel, and may take weeks to complete, but the deltas can be backed up straight away.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

Publish TSM client software via yum repository

Currently, it's possible to download the latest client-related TSM software packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS at ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/client/v7r1/Linux/LinuxX86/BA/ It would be even better i...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Externalise Achive to tape backup

Hello, I dont know why you have created an archive to tape solution without any possibility to externalise the tapes. We really need this option fefore we are going to another solution. Regards, Nabil AMER
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Incremental Restore

It would be useful if TSM for VE provided "incremental restore" functionality, using the Change Block Tracking feature, so as to perform a restore of a VM by only restoring data which has changed since a specific point in time.This is possible wit...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Edit SLA Policy name

Enable the customer to edit the name of an SLA Policy.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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