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Storage Protect Family

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Qumulo SMB backup API integration

Integration with Qumulo API to eliminate the long/timely treewalk to see which files/folders have changed.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Support for vmware snapshot larger than 2 TB

vmware 5.5 supports disks larger than 2 TB but we are not able to make snapshots with TSM4VE
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Backup VM process uses too much memory

The IFINCR backup VM job uses too much memory when processing guests especially in the initial phase when querying for previous backups images stored on the Spectrum Protect server.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

send encrypted backups through tdpve iffull/ifincr method

send tdpve client backups with method iffull and ifincr encrypted to server as it was with methods full and incr before
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Events and reports from the IBM Spectrum Protect from VE to the Operation Center.

Centralize the possibility to view from the IBM Spectrum Protect Operational Center all the events generated by the IBM Spectrum Protect for VE and also the creation, execution and visualization of the IBM Spectrum Protect VE reports from the Oper...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Certificate based client validation

It would be nice, if certificate based validation could be used for clients - in order to enhance the security regarding client validation towards the TSM server.Client certificates could be issued using a local PKI - and when a client connects, t...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Enable to bulk select the Hard disk1 or other hardidisk of all the VMS to protect.

There is no way using the GUI to bulk-select all 'Hard disk 1' of all the VMs to protect. I want to protect only harddisk 1 (OS disk) Via SPP. But need to do it 1 by 1. There should be filter out disks for complete landscape.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Excluding virtual mount points from backups

Need option to exclude the virtual mount points from backups
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

TDP for SQL Integration with CDC for SQL

How to make it possible to create a custom script in IBM Spectrum Protect SQLServer to run every 8 hours and perform backup and erase logs only from the last 4 hours, keeping 4 hours of logs on the SQLServer disk. We have a use case where two IBM ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Scheduler should skulk "In Progress" events and vcenter jobs

If DSMC aborts after completing a filespace or VM backup, but before sending the backup summary, then the events table will forever show "In Progress". Further, for VM backups, vcenter will perpetually show the backup as running. When a scheduler ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration