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Storage Protect Family

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Recovery Agent for virtual environments - Save Spectrum Protect Server Connections

In recovery agent you can mount virtual machine disk based on: - spectrum protect server-- ip-- port- datamover- datacenter node The recovery agent only remember last entry. It could be very nice if it can remember different entries.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 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

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...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under 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

Enable SPLITLARGEO also during LAN-Free backups

The backups done using LAN-Free do not use the option SPLITLARGEO, so the files biggest that 10Gb are not fragmented, when using the same environment, but without LAN-Free, the backups are splitted on files less, or equal to 10G.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Dump of login information (auditlog) from the Spectrum Protect Plus application to monitor it in Rsyslog

Hi, we have enabled the Rsyslog, to monitor the accesses (login) to the Spectrum protect Plus, for the Linux server we already have it working, but for the login in the application there is no option, since this information is only in the GUI, and...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management: integrated data masking is not available with virtual servers

The data masking feature is not supported with virtual servers, only physical servers.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management should be able individually rename target filesystems

SCDM can add a prefix, suffix, or replace a string when changing target filesystem names. It would be useful to have a one to one mapping of the source and targets to be renamed as an additional option.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management should not require Oracle "recover until snapshot" command when hot backup is not used

During Oracle recoveries SCDM, if hot backup is not used to create the backup, will use the Oracle "recover until snapshot" command which invokes the Oracle Advanced Compression Snapshot Optimization license. This is expensive. Alternatively, ther...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Data Copy Management should be able to disable archive log mode on the target

SCDM should be able to bring up a target database and take it out of archive log mode. Most users do not run test copies of their databases in archive log mode.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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