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Storage Protect Family

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Backup of TSM / Spectrum Protect Directory Container Pools

The new directory container storage pools are unable to perform migrations to other storage pools. This can be "hacked", if you will, by backing up the directory container files themselves to another storage pool that can migrate to tape devices. ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Add multiple recipients to receive mail from SPP

When adding SMTP information to SPP can we add multiple recipients to receive emails?
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Option to start DSMSERV in "standalone" or "maintenance" mode

I would like to be able to start DSMSERV with an option that disables reclamation, administrative schedules, expiration and client sessions. I know it it possible to disable reclamation, expiration and administrative schedules by editing the dsmse...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

Exchange2010 backup & Restore - Morethan one passive databases

Exchange2010 Passive DAG backup, we have 2 copies of passive databases. These are on different hosts so we wind up backing up both copies. This adds to our total occupancy as well as taking up bandwidth of the client.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Delivered

TSM OC should have a job control.

TSM Operation Center needs a panel to control the backup-restores. I am going to put some examples. If a customer is using Control-M or TWS, TSM doesn't know if the backup is good or fail. Like TSM is a Backup/Restore tool. It is also necesary thi...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

TSM Admin Center(tip) needs support for Internet Explorer 8 and beyond.

TSM Admin Center - tip(tivoli integrated portal) does not support IE8 and beyond. It needs to support IE8 and beyond for currency in our environment.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 4 Delivered

Spectrum Protect server v8.1.x with SLES v12 on Power LE

Spectrum Protect v8.1.x server:Customer is building a complete SAP HANA on SLES v12 running on POWER LE. Spectrum Protect for HANA is supported on SLES v12 on POWER LE.In order to be consistent and ease of use, customer would like to run Spectrum ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Deliver sha2 and md5 hash for software downloads

To ensure authenticity and immutability of software downloaded from IBM web- and ftp sites, a hash should be provided in a secure space or via email.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Delivered

SP Operation Center backup success rate improvement

On the Operation Center, backup success rate is calculated by every node that is registered to the TSM Servers. However, this is not correct approach on every customer environment.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Exclude nodes from expiration

Currently expiration runs by node or domain or everything. Node should have option to be included or excluded in standard expiration.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

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