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Storage Protect Family

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Spectrum Protect Plus for PowerVM

Backup Virtual Machines from IBM PowerVM virtualization
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Remove the need for reboot when installing BA and TDP clients on Windows

For the GUI to work some 2012 libraries has to be installed. This requires a reboot. IBM should change the code so that the BA and TDP clients are not dependant of additional software that requires a reboot. A reboot requires downtime and must be ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Support TSM Storage Agent to be used in virtual machines for "Serverfree" backup to shared disk

IBM GPFS is a supported file system for performing "server free" backups to shared disks (similar to LANfree backups, which are going from a TSM client system with TSM for SAN directly to a tape). At the moment, this method (Server free backup to ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 2 Not under consideration

Migrating IBM Spectrum Protect Servers from One Operating System to Another

Currently there is support of migrating an IBM Spectrum Protect server from AIX to Linux x86_64 via extractdb/insertdb but not the other way around.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Add support in SP4VE/vSphere to restore to specific resource pool

Add functionality in Sp4VE/vSphere to restore VM's into specific resource pool in vSphere environment.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

To pull graphical representing reports from operation center

Add a feature to pull reports in form of bar/pie, graphical representing reports from operation Centre.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

Forecast of remaining Restore Duration

Dynamically get a Forecast by spectrum protect Server of the remaining Restore Duration for Restores of Databases and File Restore
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect (TSM) "What's New" Operations Center Feed

Spectrum Protect customers often are unaware when new versions of the solution are released and what relevant new features are added. This often causes issues as the applications and software they are protecting continues to update and requires sp...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TDP for MS SQL FCM GUI Customization

The way information is displayed in the FCM GUI interface, restore tab, is cumbersome to use, especially when dealing with multiple instances. We should be able to customize the column layout, and sort on multiple columns.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Implement server certificate information in OC

Implement server certificate information in operations centre to prevent from the need to connect to system and using difficult gsk commands.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration