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Storage Protect Family

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TSM operations center option to set or disable 'at risk' for RC4 and RC8

Tivoli Storage manager operations center shows clients as 'at risk' when backups are completed with RC8. We would like to see an option in which you can specify when a client is at risk:- backup must be completed with no messages- backup may be co...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

Backup Solution for Oracle 19c

We have to be able to backup Oracle 19c
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Planned for future release

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...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect FreeBSD client

I would like to request support for Spectrum Protect Client that runs natively on FreeBSD.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Lustre File System Support

In our many ongoing deals, "Lustre Support" is required by our customer.Luster Filesystem is supported by many other vendors, and our many potential customers have already introduced Luster Filesystem to their systems.Moreover, Luster support is o...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Data Integrity Verification during storage pool hierarchy (copy/migration)

We use IBM TSM for our long term data archives (company asset), and we regularly copy the primary storage pool (tape) to copy-storage pool (tape), mainly for Disaster Recovery. In addition, IBM TSM migrates data from pool to pool as a regular proc...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to retain active data in a normal storage pool

I propose that an additional paramater MIGACTIVEDATA is added as a storage pool parameter.      This parameter could be used to stop the migraion of active data from the initial staging pool and will eliminate the need for an additi...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Change (add) blocksize to 256K for backup NDMP for HNAS to Tape

Hello,We were faced with the slow speed of data backup via NDMP protocol from Hitachi NAS device. Hitachi said that our backup speed through IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.9 will increase 3 times if you Add and make a choicethe block size during backup....
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 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 ...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM4VE - requirement of Windows proxy for file-level restore in Linux environments

Setting up a TSM4VE file-level restore for Linux in a Linux only environment requires a Windows based TSM4VE proxy. Customer requested support for a Linux only based TSM4VE proxy instead.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration