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Storage Protect Family

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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
over 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

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...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

DB backup not running on all nodes in oracle

we have customers with oracle DBs that have some DBs registered in all nodes but that are not running in all nodes, and the SPP cannot backup these DBs, it is necessary to make the SPP capable of doing so
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Needs more information

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.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under 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 ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 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.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Node Replication available for NDMP storage pools

Is it in the roadmap to include storage pools with format=NETAPPDUMP, CELERRADUMP or NDMPDUMP in Node Replication ?
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 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.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Planned for future release

Complete list of client instrumentation categories

According manual "IBM Spectrum Protect Version 8.1.0 / Optimizing Performance" administrators can collect and analyse data for client performance problems. The table of client instrumentation categories that are tracked/timed is not complete (e.g....
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration