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Storage Protect Family

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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

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.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Glacier on TSM - IBM Spectrum Protect

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

SPP Server: view / check / download certificates

Hallo all As you know, there is no option to check / view certificate, e.g., for vSnap directly from SPP server. Check certificate might be required when non-default certs are in place. Under system configuration -> keys and certificates, there...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future 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...
about 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.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

BA Client for ARM/ARM64

ARM architecture user base is growing, and ARM servers needs protection too.
about 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.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

allow versioning/history for objects of S3 clients

Allow versioning/history for objects of S3 clients. It would allow automatic expiration of older versions. This would help implementing smooth S3 backup solutions for many modern "cloud" databases and similar tools, like Postgres, MongoDB, Hashico...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Needs more information

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