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Storage Protect Family

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NDMP to TSM-Server (NAS filer to server) - enable simultaneous write

NDMP data transfers from NSeries (Netapp) Filers over TCP/IP (NAS to TSM Server Storage) currently does not support simultaneous write into primary and copy storage pools. It seems that the autocopy function is ignoring NDMP/TCP-IP data during ing...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Progression of manual backup/restore in DP for Exchange GUI (Task Details)

We have had several customers complain that "Task Details" in DP for Exchange GUI are not updated until a task finishes.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

Log backup of SQL system databases

Log backup of SQL system databases should be supported in Spectrum Protect Plus
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 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

SPP support for Cloud applications

Customers start asking for data protection of cloud applications to a larger extent.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SCDM - RFE title Granular LDAP queries than trying to scan in the entire AD Domain.

Storage Copy Data Management - We currently cannot handle scale for the amount of LDAP groups that are being attempted to be loaded for a case. Based on the error displaying an "out of memory" error message, it appears that the issue is related to...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for LSA (Local Security Authority)

It would be beneficial for everyone when it comes to security.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Option to enhance ANR3654W Inventory file expiration when not using replication

When you are using the policies on the target replication server to manage replicated client-node data, you must run expiration processing every 24 hours to allow the target replication server reuse storage pool space that is occupied by expired r...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Change warning message to information message

In TSM for VE 7.1 the warning message "ANS4063W" is triggering an RC 8 return code on the scheduled event. We would like the warning message changed to an information message instead.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Request the implementation of the duration/starttime/endtime parameters to the define stgrule actiontype=AUDIT

We've configured stgrules to audit containers, but it's impacting backups as we cannot update the stgrule with a duration or stoptime. Other stgrules have the duration and stoptime options, but the 'update stgrule actiontype=audit' doesn't have an...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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