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Storage Protect Family

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To Improve Communication Between Spectrum Protect Server (on Windows Platform) and VTL (Fujitsu Eternus CS)

1. There is no option to define control path failover for medium changer (or timeout value for this), so whenever there is VLP failover in VTL or even small connection break, TSM immediately reports Library is not accessible and if we have volumes...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Individual Creation of SLA/User/Identity (tenant based account)

Dear IBM,Our customer Requires Ability to create his own SLA policies and assign VM's/DB's/Filesystems in it. Ability to create his own users and assign him role of limited capabilityAbility to create his own identities (for inventory of VM's most...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

HW Snapshot support in SPP for HPe 3PAR

Customer (a large SP and competition (mainly for VMware) user) is running an RFI concerning backup/recovery. Part of this RFI is protection of VMware. Customer is using HP 3PAR hardware for their VMware vSphere enviroment.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Cross platform migration: Linux x86 to AIX

Allow TSM to restore its database from a Linux x86 server to an AIX server.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to export data by management class using the export node command

I propose that the TSM export node command is enhanced so that specific management classes are targeted for extraction. This will enable administrators to extract specific data ( typically long term data ) and leave out all the unnecessary data. T...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

BA client for debian update startscript

In Debian Linux the rc.dsmcad startscript does not work for tw reassons:1)In Debian Linux default runlevel per default is 2 (can be between 2 and 5.) the dsmcad start sript rc.dsmcad is not setup to start on runlevel 2cat rc.dsmcad#!/bin/sh## (C) ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect for HADOOP File System

There is a need for Spectrum Protect to protect Hadoop file system
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Add wait=yes to audit command

We would like to have a "wait=yes" option to the audit volume command. I think this should be done since audit container has this option.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM for VE (vCloud) should report vApp backup failure when associated VM backups are not successful

TSM/ISP for VE reports that a backup of a vCloud vApp is successful even when a backup of a VM within that vApp has failed. When one VM associated with a vApp failed to back up, TSM still reported: 03/06/2017 20:05:12 Total number of vApps process...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM VE - Instant restore with FC presented LUN

For enviroments that cannot use iScsi, an optional method would be FC or NFS.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

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