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Storage Protect Family

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Move backups between nodes (datamovers)

Moving data from a datamover node to a datacenter node is not possible when it is mis-stored. Currently, with container pools, the only option is to delete those backups, or manually track them separately.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

REPLTCPSERVERADDRESS override

baclient and API need to allow persistent override of REPLTCPSERVERADDRESS or similar functionality.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Future consideration

RC=12 is not required for successful processing.

When the IBM Spectrum Protect backup/archive client detects that a self-signed digital certificate has expired, the expiration date is updated, but RC=12 is returned and "ANS1579E" is recorded.The process is successful and I would like RC=0 to be ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Is a defect

BA Client for ARM/ARM64

ARM architecture user base is growing, and ARM servers needs protection too.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

Isolate proxies to only backup clients in its respective esxi cluster

Need the ability to isolate proxies to only backup clients in its respective esxi cluster.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Glacier on TSM - IBM Spectrum Protect

Data restoration from Glacier using TSM Client manager.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Support for TSM USS Client

System: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for z/OS USS Client and API (5698-B22)Actor: ITERGO Informationstechnologie TSM B/A is a standard product spreaded over all different kinds of operating systems. For z/OS, TSM USS Client is used to backup and res...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect - Add functionality to the deactivate data command

Expand the deactivate data command to apply to other clients besides Oracle. It is urgently needed for SQL backup clients. The deactivate data command should be expanded to work on SQL, DB2, Informix, and all other API-style backup products.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Need function in Spectrum Protect Plus to delete all backups of SQL Server database

Customer requires functionality in Spectrum Protect Plus to delete all backups of a SQL Server database. This is related to GDPR.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Future consideration

OpenStack backup with Spectrum Protect Plus

Our important customer is asking for remote API backup of OpenStack environment. Preferred support with Spectrum Protect Plus (as the extend container support) but Spectrum Protect API combination could be another variant.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration