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Storage Protect Family

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Point in Time Restore facility

With DB2 as core of TSM to reduce the impact and time to restore a TSM-DB we want to have a function like point in time restore capability. These Function enable us to reduce our outage window in an case of an disaster.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 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

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

Spectrum Protect Plus Mongo SSl / TLS

Spectrum Protect Plus Mongo client agent does not have support for SSL or TLS security keys. Please add SSL /TLS security function to the Mongo agent.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 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...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Backing up and Restoring VMs that have independant disks allocated to them

Short notes:TSM for VE will backup and restore and VM with zero dependent disks. The data will not be on the disks, but the VM will backup and restore with the disks in place. SPP simply fails the job if there are no dependent disks. TSM for VE wi...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Querying actlog with option MSGNO can only be done with one argument, this should be extendend to use more arguments

The search in Actlog with the msgno option should be extended so that it is possible to search for several message numbers. For example, msgno=0293,0294 should be possible in a query so that you can see the start and end of an action, therefore yo...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Client Deploy should be able to update TDP clients, or at least skip clients which should not be upgraded w/o TDP updates.

The current client deploy is not TDP aware. It is up to us to track which of the 8000 clients belong on the same host, and which ones are TDP. In some cases, seeing the policy domain and node name is enough to figure it out, but not always. Some T...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

Client Deploy should not break 100% if one single server fails package prepare. Failure causes should show up in the GUI. Documentation should show troubleshooting details.

If you have multiple spectrum protect servers which are replicating, and then you enable client deploy,then if any one of the deploy targets has an error, such as a replica server that was offline,and then if you have daily replication which pushe...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

VM's with virtual NVME Controller should be supported for backup and restore in TSM4VE

VM's with virtual NVME Controller should be supported for backup and restore.API error message : The device '3' is referring to a nonexisting controller '31,000'.Case TS001855546
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

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