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Storage Protect Family

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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.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 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 ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 2 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.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 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.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 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...
almost 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.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

MS SQL support for Linux Host (both physical and virtual)

Customer will start tests this year with MS SQL on Linux. This will be tested on physical machines as well as on virtual appliances. They also need to backup this databases. At the moment ISP for Databases and ISP4VE only supports MS-SQL on Windows.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Support of Sharedmemory feature for TSM (ISP) DB Backup on Windows Platforms

Dear Dev. team,Please incorporate support of sharedmemory feature for TSM DB backup on Windows Platforms.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect: Task Time Preview and Progress Indicators

There are currently no preview or progress indicators for server and client related tasks. It would be good to get an indication of how long a task will take before kicking it off as well as an indication of how much time is still remaining for th...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

VMDK size limit for spectrum protect for ve backups (vmware)

Increase vmdk size limit which is currently 8TB
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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