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Storage Protect Family

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DECOM / DEACTIVATE by future date

Requesting DECOMM VM, DECOMM NODE and/or DEACTIVATE commands be enhanced to allow specifying a future date. This could be parsed during EXPIRE, or possibly some other operation that gives more notice. Alternatively, if DEACTIVATE could be modified...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 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...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Improve VM Restore GUI

Remove the necessity of choosing "Type of Restore." Make one of the options (on-demand) the default. Add a button to show all available restore points without having to poke around in the calendar.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Usability and Performance enhancements needed for very large filespace replication

There are 3 major problems currently with replication of very large filespaces.1) The initial replication and ongoing replication of data for nodes with very large filespaces (100 million+ objects) and with a large amount of data (10+TB) works ver...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 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.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

dsmj client for zLinux (S390)

On zLinux/s390 there is no GUI client since upgrade to Spectrum Protect server version 8.1.2+ (7.1.8).WEB client is not working any more and dsmj client is missing on zLinux OS. We need GUI on zLinux platfrom (WEB cleint or dsmj cleint)
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

DEACTIVATE DATA command enter a list of nodes, or date range or possibly of another platforms (DB2, SQL) NODEGROUP

Will DEACTIVATE commands be able to be executed to enter a series a series of NODES, or for a NODEGROUP? Will the commands be able to be executed for a certain date range, and not only with the current option of TODATE=TODAY-xx days? Is it planned...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future 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...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Oracle RAC One Node with Spectrum Protect Plus

We need a protection with a Oracle RAC One Node configuration with 2 servers nodes and differents db instances in the both nodes. In the Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.x fail applications inventory with a Oracle RAC One Node configuration.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

2 TB Backup Limit in TSM for VE

Error: ANS2236I message disks that exceed the 2 TB maximum size limit.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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