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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

BA Client Support for MAC based on Apple Silicon CPUs

We have many MAC-users with new Apple Silicon CPUs inside. In client requirements https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apple-macintosh-client-requirements#Release%208.1 is noted "Apple silicon-based Macintosh, by using conversion mechanism Rosetta 2 ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future 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...
about 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...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Synchronize policy information to another SP server

There is a Spectrum Protect environment with 2 Spectrum Protect servers. Server A is the primary server to which the SP clients connect to, which stores alll SP client data in first place, and on which all SP client node information, associations ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Azure HCI support for SPP

Hallo Please consider support for Azure HCI.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future 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.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 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

TSM Auto-Deploy/OC and roadmap for ability to Custom Install Package

We are looking for the ability to add a custom installable component like "TSM Web Client" to an auto-deploy upgrade.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

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