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Storage Protect Family

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SCDM should support daylight savings time

SCDM should support daylight savings time
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Working as designed -- Content of dsm.opt file disappeared?

Content of dsm.opt file can be lost
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Improve NQR Performance

When doing an NQR on Nodes with tens of millions of files, the initial TSM database search and sort operation which takes place on the server takes several hours. We noticed that the hardware resource utliziation (CPU, DB2 Disks) is not very high ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 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...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Show Unprotected Applications

As the System discovers "unprotected VMs" and "unprotected Databases/Applications", I'd like to get a query / view, which are these.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

IBM SPP Support for Non-AD LDAP servers

IBM SPP to support for Non-AD LDAP servers such as OpenLDAP
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable a storage system to perform NDMP backups using the CELERRADUMP data format

Please add “DellEMC” to the Vendor-name list that are allowed to use “celerradump” dataformat
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

dsmc -filelist quotes and control characters

There are constraints that prevents BA client from processing files: they may not contain quotes and apostrophes; thay may not contain control characters either.IBM should come up with escape and quoting rules that could allow BA client to process...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Write-lock files during restore operations

We regularly have to do partial restores on active systems, and/or on shares where the users still have access and can be impatient. Unfortunate experience and subsequent testing shows that no locks are placed on files while they are being restore...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Ability to specify Node replication parameters on each node

To increase security in the node replication feature, we would like to have the option to specify the target TSM server IP, Port, Nodename and Nodepassword on individual nodes - instead of global settings, which requires server-to-server communica...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration