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Storage Protect Family

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Provide a guide or option in Operations Center to change from tape to replserver pool protection

The Spectrum Protect Operations Center throws an error stating the server is configured to use container-copy pools to protect data to tape, and that you can't configure replication for the server. However, neither the message, nor the built-in he...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Is a defect

why exclude.dir not favor archive?

why exclude.dir not favor archive?and there is no other option for exclude dir for archive backup.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Mailbox Restore Browser functionality for Exchange 2016

I would like the Mailbox Restore Browser functionality added for Exchange 2016
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to use the "dedup_device" with TSM for ERP (DB2) Product

Customer backup its DB2 database with Sp. Protect (ex TSM) ; backup storage is ProtecTIER (IBM Open deduplication solution). In order to boost both backup / restaure performances and deduplication ratio the 'dedup_device' option has been be set up...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

Customization of Client Auto-deployment Schedule

We would like to modify the auto deploy schedule in order to make it successful in our environment.In our infra, we do have multiple nodes configured for same host, hence multiple CAD services are running.After version 8.1.11, we are unable to sta...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

TSM is not supproted on p7 except in p6 compatibility mode

TSM on p7 hardware requires that you run the LPAR in p6 compatibility mode. This is a Java/DB2 limitation during the install or upgrade. This limitation should be fixed as it nullifies the reason for migrating to better/faster hardware. http://www...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TVE Duplicate Backup Task

If a backup task is running and new one task is started on the same object using the GUI, it will cause the first backup to fail. The TVE system should indicate that a backup on the object is currently executing and skip or queue the second backup...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Full Active Directory Intergration

Full Active Directory Integration as a single signon solution
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Allow prioritisation of policies

Allow prioritization of the execution of policies based on SLA. Each SLA will have a priority number associated with it (0=no priority/undefined, 1=highest...99=lowest). When defined the policy number would would mean that when SLAs are running co...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Tool to reset damaged files without "audit volume"

Sometimes there is some error condition while the TSM server is reading a tape (tape failure, drive failure, network failure, other). In many of these cases, the TSM server marks the files it could not read as "damaged". The standard way of making...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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