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IBM Backup, Recovery and Media Services (BRMS) for i and Tivoli Storage Manager for IBM i

I've a client in Moçambique that would like to back an Exictos-Promosoft Financial Suite on an IBM iSeries box (aka AS400's) using TSM V7.1 or later. Could you let me know if this is possible and how the client can do this. The client also has oth...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Support of enhanced DAR for EMC and NetApp filer

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21223572Restoring file(s) on a network-attached storage (NAS) file server is much faster than restoring a directory. Enhanced DAR (Direct Access Recovery) for directories provided by NetApp or EMC f...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Allow pending glacier protocol requests automatic clean up on SP server for failed or aborted restores

Design of the code needs to clean up automatically on the SP server left over glacier restore requests coming from Spectrum Protect Plus when the client (here SPP) has failed or the user cancelled the active restore process.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Move filespace to another node

It would be helpful to be able to change the retention of a VM after it has been deleted, without having to restore, rebind, then re-delete. Ideally, we would be able to add a target node name to RENAME FILESPACE, or a new command for MOVE FILESPA...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

make copies of existing Backupsets: either to go from Lto2 to lto4 media; and/or make duplicates for redundancy/DR issues!

make copies of existing backupsets to move the backupset from LTO2 to LTO4 tape media; to have reduntant backupsets(DR reasons) without having to issue the backupset command twice since the available creation time will not allow entering the same ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Allow SLA jobs to be run only by external tools rather than the SPP scheduler

We have had a number of customers wanting to running SPP SLA jobs via other tools. Currently you are able to run an existing SLA job by the RestAPI but only if it is already scheduled to run via the SPP scheduler. If you hold the SLA job you are u...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow SP for VE for Hyper-v REST API timeout to be adjustable

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment for Hyper-V 8.1.9 GUI times out after 15-20 minutes, and disconnects REST API session, making all manual backup running via Data Protection for Hyper-V GUI to fail and process status no longer visible. Plea...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect REST API : Further Development

The Spectrum Protect Client Management Service allows REST API calls to start a backup, restore, update BA client configs, restart daemons, and so on. It is a great initiative. And we need something like that. More than ever now that the BA webage...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Access to all functions in SPP through WAN using SSL

It is possible to connect to some of the functions in the SPP server GUI, but not all of them. E.g: accessing the Policy Overview page. The GUI tries to access the public IP address / host name from inside the firewall, and this causes the problem.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

backup individiual vm within current sla

We would like to see the ability to restart/retry failed vm's within an SLA without running the complete SLA.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

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