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Spectrum protect, official support for RedHat 8

Hi. There is a need to use RedHat 8 servers. Lacking support for backups on Spectrum Protect
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

SPP Updated Reporting

Currently the reporting in Spectrum Protect Plus needs a bit of work. Couple of requests i would like to make.1. The ability to have all sizes in the same format. IE everything in bytes, MB,GB,TB etc.The reason for this is then the ability to sort...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Prevent Web B/A client file level restore port conflict with WAS ports

Customer identified during the Spectrum Protect web client implementation that its ports (9081) conflicts directly with WAS (Websphere Application Server) ports that's is being in use by their banking online production applications. Thus this beha...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Fix BKI6243E error for HANA with SSL enforced

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

Retain last X backups beyond date based expiration

Retain a configurable amount of backups beyond date based retention, requiring administrator action to delete.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

The customer request Storage Insights to have a Safe Guarded Copy capacity planning tool similar to StorM

The customer would like to use Safe Guarded Copy but wants to understand the capacity requirements using Storage Insights
12 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Export node on container pools

The ability to export node data when using container pools
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future 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...
about 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.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

more volumes on DS8000

Currently, only 65280 volumes are possible in DS8000, due to the LSS/LCU concept. When in a FlashCopy relation, this is cut in half practically.Increase this somehow so that well more (e.g. over 200,000) volumes are possible.
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

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