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Storage Protect Family

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snapdiff AIX

Please re-add snapdiff functionality to the AIX dsmc. This exists in 7.1 but was dropped in 8.1.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Oracle ACFS Support for Copy Data Management

Navy Federal Credit Union (NFCU) is evaluating CDM v2.2.9 for Oracle. SQL has passed the eval. Oracle is running ACFS as the standard at NFCU. Looking for CDM support for ACFS
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Support for CSVFS over CIFS/SMB

As a first step towards RFE 105269 (Spectrum Protect Support for CSVFS) backup/restore of CSVFS file system via SMB/CIFS should be officially supported. Right now, it seems to work, but is neither tested nor supported, according to IBM. A "query f...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Allow the Repository Server IP hostname/port to be updated

Allow the Repository Server IP hostname/port to be updated in the SPP Gui to cater for infrastructure changes where the SP server IP address has changedand to allow the possiblity to allow the SPP server to be repointed to the failover object agen...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Provide method to move VMs & associated backups between different data centers

We have a deployment coming up where the VMWare administrators are creating a new data center within the same vCenter and VMs from the existing data centers are going to be moved to the new data center. I opened a PMR to find out if there was a wa...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Support for CSVFS

We are using spectrum protect backup software to backup windows environments, one of the requirement from business side to backup CSVFS file system, which is not supported yet.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Improve SPP handling of ICOS retention Vaults

IBM SPP handling of IBM COS Retention Vaults does not guarantee protection of all objects referred in full backups. Offloading or copying to IBM COS retention vaults is done to offer "Cyber Resiliency" for a certain amount of defined time, for exa...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

Load Balance of TSM for VE Datamovers

When you have 1000's of Virtual Machines and a daily changes in your environment, it get's really hard to get a good a easy overview which Datamover that has less load. It should be good if the datamovers could talk to each other and spread the wo...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

No storage for client transaction

The customer wants to know if it is possible to get a request for improvement started so that TSM B-A clients will handle this problem file more elegantly, without blowing up server storage? We added a few hundred Unix servers to ECS (object stora...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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