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Storage Protect Family

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Backup Session Bandwidth Throttling

I would like to have a TSM backup client option that sets the maximum bandwidth that the session is allowed to use. Would like to have the option available for Windows and Linux clients.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Provide ISP Client Management Services also for Linux on Power LE

We use ISP CMS to rollout ISP Client configuration on our ISS Cluster systems. Now, besides x86 based ISS Clusters, we got our first IBM POWER LE based cluster and recognised that IBM does not ship ISP CMS for POWER LE. But we need CMS also on the...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Add Support Hyper-V Fail-over cluster with Storage Spaces Direct running on Windows Server 2022 Datacente

Lots of our Microsoft customers use this combo.
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Backup history for specified date frame

Hallo all To get information about VM or application backup history, you should use /ngp/analytics/vmbackuphistory or /ngp/analytics/dbbackuphistory rest-api endpoints. It generally works... if you have small amount of VM's and your environment is...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP File Restore GUI/Wizard

The steps for the VM FileRestore are not clear and simple enough according to the client.In a restore situation (always associated with stress), the customer has to know or consider too many things in order to perform the file restore. For example...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Choose wich disc to restore in Data Protection for Hyper-V

In Dataprotection for Hyper-V it would be very nice if we can choose wich disc to restore.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

dsmc incre generated ANS4005E failure for /etc/adsm/tsmpswd.lck, it should be added into the auto exclude list

dsmc incr generates the following message:ANS1228E Sending of object '/etc/adsm/tsmpswd.lck' failed.ANS4005E Error processing '/etc/adsm/tsmpswd.lck': file not found This file is generated a during the client backup. Client expects no error messag...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

Copy container pool to cloud pool

Spectrum Protect (TSM) currently does not support the use of cloud pools as protection for container pools. The Copy Container functionality should be enhanced to support the used of cloud pools (in addition to tape) as a way to protect an on-prem...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

.NET Wrapper for TSM API

A mono-project (http://www.mono-project.com/) wrapper for the TSM API is desirable, in order to ease development of utilities and add-ons to the TSM Server
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM Admin Center(tip) needs support for Firefox 6 and beyond.

TSM Admin Center - tip(tivoli integrated portal) does not support firefox 6 and beyond. It needs to support firefox 6 and beyond for currency in our environment.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 6 Not under consideration

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