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Storage Protect Family

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Spectrum Protect server should be able to display what clients are sending 'pre-deduplicated' data

either in operations center, or with a simple select statement, it should be possible to display if a client is actually sending deduplicated data to the Spectrum protect server.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

New option to exclude compressed files from compression

When using client compression there are files that are already compressed that will (probably) grow in size.There is the ability to exclude files from compression processing with the exclude.compression option. However this requires a separate lin...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 6 Delivered

TDP for Domino on Linux x86 & x86_64

Tivoli Data Protection for Domino does not support Linux on x86 & x86_64 systems after 5.5.3 while Domino supports this platform. When will this platform become supported again for current versions of Tivoli Data Protection?
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 4 Delivered

Using TDP under Windows with alternate dsm.opt (this was possible in the past)

We need to use TDP under Windows with alternate dsm.opt
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Delivered

qtree support with snapdiff with Spectrum protect

Customer data is on qtrees on NetApp. They are using NDMP And would like to move to Snapdiff. Most of their data is in qtrees and qtrees seems to be not supported with Snapdiff backup.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Delivered

IBM Spectrum Protect - Active Directory 2012 Support for LDAP Password Authentication

After checking through your documentation it would appear that when trying to use LDAP password authentication, Active Directory 2012 isn't currently supported. I've raised a support call and your technical team have confirmed this is the case - t...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Delivered

256 bit encryption for IBM Spectrum Protect for Lotus Domino

The API for TSM for DOMINO does not support 256 bit encryption, the industry standard. We need to have 256 bit encryption to satisfy a requirement by our internal business partners.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Delivered

FlashCopyManager on WS2016 CORE

As discussed with IBM support through PMR 87628,122,000, the FlashCopyManager tool fails to open on Windows Server 2016 Core. The error is due to mmc.exe no longer existing on Windows Server 2016. We want to request a new version of FlashCopyManag...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Delivered

Ability to script Oracle TDP config with tdpoconf

Scripting capabilities is needed for tdpoconf in order to be able to do a "silent" (no user-interaction) installation of the Oracle TDP (without having to use utilities like expect or similar).The problem has been observed on linux, but might also...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Delivered

Move TSM DB2 tempspace to a separate filesystem

TSM can crash unexpectedly. The DB2 logs indicated that the tempspace ran out of space due to heavy SQL transaction, suspected at the time to be a custom data collection script for TSM monitoring, although not confirmed. This can now be reproduced...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered