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Storage Protect Family

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ENCRYPTIONType AES256 can be reduced to AES128 with a client option set

Extend the client option srvoptsetencryptiondisabled that even the encryptiontype can't be overruled with a client options set.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

Missing Error messages when silent installation of Spectrum Protect for VE Recovery Agent fails

After installing successful the datamover in silent mode with this command: spinstall.exe ISFeatureInstall=Client,TSM4VE /silent ComponentsToInstallBa=BackupArchiveGUI,BackupArchiveWeb,Api64Runtime ComponentsToInstallVe=LAP,TSMLicence,documents SU...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Change nodenames for SP for Hyper-V during installation

Please make it possible to be able to change nodenames for the Hyper-V nodes when installing Spectrum Protect for Hyper-V
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Future consideration

Remote web client for BA client

Evidently, the TSM BA client functionality is limited when launched remotely. When using the BA client locally on Linux or Windows you can edit client preferences. When launching the BA client remotely, client preferences are not available. The on...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

SPP permits to install aditional software as monitoring.

Customer needs to install a monitoring software in the SPP and Vsnap Appliances. This is an important requirement to move to production this environment.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Move Restored VM in test mode to production (vMotion)

Restore VMware quickly and move to production environment
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

Suppport FreeNAS S3 as S3 compatible Object Storage

FreeNAS/TrueNAS is a commonly used small to medium software appliance for storage. It provides S3 API via Minio and is compatible with S3.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Feature so you can have managed SP instances when using TAG based vmware backup

We have quite a few SP servers that are all managed, but now we have to stop that because when doing vmware backup to a Spectrum protect server it can not longer be managed. This is due to the fact that with 8.1.4 the vmgui admin user will update ...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect API for DB2 does not allow to set 'set protect size' info. Hence OC does not count it for License check

Nodes being used for DB2 database backup using TSM client API are not reporting to front end capacity usage (in Operation Center). Hence unable to utilize OC for license calculation. Refer PMR Numbers TS001718996 and TS002594393.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

dsmcutil updatepw /validate:no doesn't accept FQDN commserver

dsmcutil updatepw /validate:no doesn't accept a FQDN server name by design. FQDN must be used with CA signed certificates and should therefore be supported.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration