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Storage Protect Family

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Parameter to exclude powered off virtual machines

The rule based inclusion- and exclusion parameters for TSMVE 6.4 works very well. However we would like to have the ability to exclude virtual macines that are powered off.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

Metadata Search for Repository backups

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus needs the ability to keep track of VMware metadata for backups once a a backup is moved off to a repository or S3 location. Not having the ability search for metadata (file search) on long term repository backups defeat s...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

VOLHISTORY Maintenance

In reference to the growth of the VOLHISTORY file due to the entries of the new volumes that are created weekly by the FILE-type STGs. Weekly the VOLHISTORY file grows since every week new volumes are generated in the STG of file type, these volum...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

IPv6 Support for NDMP

NDMP-Backup of NAS-Systems (CDOT CAB) not possible in IPv6-Only environment. Datamover creation can't resolve AAAA records, NAS Node needs v4 LIF to open connection to tape server. First step would be to tell the storage system only the DNS name o...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect on LinuxOne with RHEL 8.x

LinuxOne is proposing for Oracle database consolidation, Spectrum Protect is a key component to provide data backup and recovery. The compatibility of Spectrum Protect on LinuxOne with RHEL 8.x is essential for the proposal.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Planned for future release

RESTORE ONLY PERMISSIONS?

Restore only ACL permission
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

VMware dissimilar recovery

Ability to select VMware side components, such as available LUNs and network interfaces, during recovery of VMs to alternate environments. This would allow VMs to be restored and function with the configuration which is dissimilar to the original
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Changing the mnt directory from root to dedicated file system

If we have a dedicated filesystem, it won't affect the space on root file system on Production servers. In our environment only, we faced the situation like the root file system is full due to this /mnt/spp/vsnapx/fspooly/ directory.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Make filename handling independent of locale settings

I previously raised this as a bug in TSM with PMR 60127,040,678 but was instructed to raise it with RFE community instead, so here it goes. The spectrum protect client does not back up all valid files when the locale settings are set to a multibyt...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

IBM SP Client/API encryption

Allow the client and api to use external source for encryption keys storage, like SKLM.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Future consideration

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