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Storage Protect Family

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TSM for VE - Enhancement to allow Graceful or Forceful cancellation of a running VE Backup Schedule

Freddie Mac is a very strong user of TSM for VE, protecting over 4000 VMs in their environment using TSM for VE 7.1.4 version currently in production. They need more granular control over Running VE Schedules to be able to stop them either gracefu...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Allow filespace deletion for non-replicated nodes without blocking replication stgrule execution

Currently, a replication storage rule fails when a delete filespace is already running. The following messages is issued: ANR1079E Storage rule REPLICATION did not start a tiering process because a DELETE FILESPACE operation is in progress. I can ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Improvement of usability by implementing a HOST command in dsmadmc

By using a HOST command or special character, commands can be issued at operating system level and you do not have to log out of dsmadmc.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

OpenStack back-up with Spectrum Protect

Customer VW (Volkswagen) Financial Services (VWFS) is in charge for managing the cloud solution for the entire VW corporation, which is based on OpenStack.VWFS is a loyal IBM Spectrum Protect customer. VWFS approached us with the request for a bac...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

CDM compatibility with RHEL8 for SAP HANA -

One of the largest customer in ANZ for SAP HANA on Power is running HANA 2.0 over RHEL 8 and want to use Spectrum Copy Data Management (CDM) v 2.2.12 As per the current compatibility information
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Extension of the Table "Replicationview" by the columns batchesQ and batchesD

Hello, the command "show replication" shows the number of "batchesQ" and "batchesD".Is it planned to implement the number of "batchesQ" and "batchesD" in the table REPLICATIONVIEW?Currently I can't find any columns in this table regarding this. En...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

Exchange 2010 Single Item Recovery from the Exchange mailbox database

We are using Spectrum Protect Server: Spectrum Protect Server EE Version 7.1.8.1 OS Version Windows 2012 R2 Standard Exchange Server / Client Side: BA Client Version 7.1.1 FlashCopy Manager for Exchange Version: 4.1.1.0 TDP for Mail Version 7.1.1 ...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

TSM4VE Cloud Service Provider Mode

Because of all ransomware attacks we see more transformations from other backup vendors back to IBM Storage Protect for VE, but the issue with TSM4VE is that it demanding a System Account in the Storage Protect Server to be able to work, we have d...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Better Information for Storage Rule

If we run any Storage rule like Replication or Tiering of data between pools and we see it failed of some reasons. A natural way to investigate a issue is to run the same command manually using wait=yes and in that way get more information, but ve...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Needs more information

Add all of the information in the ACTLOG receiver events to the SYSLOG receiver destination

The activity log receiver receives events of the format04/24/2020 08:02:06 ANR2017I Administrator TSMADMIN issued command: ASFDASF (SESSION: 773) but the syslog receiver receives events of the format2020-04-24T08:02:06 dsmserv[14887]: UVIC_ADM4: A...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration