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SPP progress on Job's

SPP does not show any proper progress details like for other admin job's
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Fix BKI6243E error for HANA with SSL enforced

TSM to work with sslEnforce = True parameter on SAP HANA database
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

Display freeze time for remote copy remote copy relationships in Storage Insights

Customer has requested to be able to view Freeze Time for remote copy relationships within the Storage Insights GUI.Other remote copy information is viewed through navigating to: Resources - Block Storage Systems - Click the storage device - Click...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Not under consideration

Less tape-commits with server-processes like Backup Stg, Migration and Reclamation to improve throuput

TSM does a tape-commit (and thus a time-consuming backhitch on the tape drive) every time the backup-date, the nodename, the filespace or even the managementclass within a single filespaces of a single node changes. This is regardless of / precede...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect (TSM) client for Linux on System z has no GUI client since 8.1.2 release

The IBM Spectrum Protect client for System z no longer has a means to access a newer release (8.1.2 or newer) server due to so called improvements in security between clients and server. Previously, clients were able to communicate with the server...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 6 Future consideration

Support Windows 2019 on the SP B/A client

More and more customers are asking about when we will support Windows Server 2019 to be able to install the B/A client.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

Metadata only Replication for Spectrum Protect

Entering this request on behalf of Kroger Company Provide the ability on the Spectrum Protect Server to Replicate Meta Data only to an alternate Spectrum Protect Server located at a secondary site used as a Disaster Recovery site.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Simplify Ubuntu/Debian install instructions by using apt instead of dpkg

Since apt/apt-get nowadays (well, since apt 1.1 released in 2015) support installing from local file, https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.11/client/t_inst_ubuntu_x86_64client.html should probably be changed from multiple dpkg -i...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Provide batch management of TS7700 controls

We are a large shop with a large number of VTS clusters to manage (72 currently). Having this many clusters means a lot of additional work when logging on to that many GUI's to manage the various statuses and configuration settings. In order to mo...
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

Pagepool enhancements

Today, the pagepool value in GPFS is set once typically at install. However if the workloads change, the setting needs to be done by customer intervention. One example, the pagepool needs to be readjusted when there is not enough memory left for t...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration