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Allow snapdiff backups of NetApp CIFS volumes containing widelinks

TSM uses NetUseEnum() to determine if a NetApp CIFS share is connected before attempting a snapdiff backup. When run on a NetApp CIFS volume with widelinks, it results in the following error: ANS2831E: Incremental by snapshot difference cannot be ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Filter for Backup, Replication and Copy in GUI

Under Job History in the SPP GUI it would be helpful to be able to filter by job job type. Example: Backup, Replication or Copy. This would make it much easier to search for specific jobs.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

VADP Proxy load statistics dashboard

Add dashboard that shows load per per proxy (and # of tasks executed) per exectured SLA. Provide more system performance info; Are all proxy's used?, are proxys rightly scaled? are all jobs active etc.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

TSM-VE: Improve the datamover backup tasks distribution, and improve the load balancing options available to the datamover

We have seen in many large TSM-VE implementation that the multithread options from TSM-VE 6.4 is a good feature, but has its limit relatively quickly.I think we should have a way to identify and display the load pushed on ESXi hosts & clusters...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Temporary AWS security credentials for S3 access

Spectrum Protect Plus currently only supports the use of permanent AWS access keys to access S3. This request is for support for access to S3 buckets with temporary AWS credentials. Spectrum Protect Plus should be able to support the rotation of a...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support newer browsers (IE11/Edge, for example) in TSM Monitoring

Monitoring/Reporting for Spectrum Protect must be updated to allow browsers beyond IE8 and IE9 for login to JazzSM to manage Cognos Reporting. Those browsers are the only officially supported by IBM, but are no longer supported by Microsoft. IE11/...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

Proxy server support for connecting to AWS S3 (cloud container storage pool)

Support for proxy connections when defining cloud storage pools in Spectrum protect server
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Server migration processing should be able to use more than 1 process with data from only 1 node in the primary disk pool

Server migration processing (from disk to tapes) should be able to use more than 1 process in order to use multiple tape drives in parallel emptying the disk pool despite data in the primary disk pool is from 1 node only.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

TDP for VE: execution of scheduled backups can not be viewed, but manual executions can

TSM for VE admin needs all funcionality in his workspace, the TDP for VE GUI , therefore visibility of scheduled backups required even though actually not executed by TDP for VE;
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Cloud pool with full local cache and no network connectivity should report out of storage space, or storage access error

When the local stgpooldirs are full for a cloud pool which has an unreachable cloud provider, attempts to write into that pool should fail, rather than hang.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

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