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Storage Protect Family

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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...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Allow snapdiff backups of NetApp CIFS volumes containing widelinks

TSM uses NetUseEnum() to determine if a NetApp CIFS share is connected before attempting a snapdiff backup. When run on a NetApp CIFS volume with widelinks, it results in the following error: ANS2831E: Incremental by snapshot difference cannot be ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TSM Terabyte Front End Capacity Calculator - needs to be reworked for VE

Please see mentioned PMR. Calculation of front end capacity for TSM for Virtual Environments is wrong, in my opinion. The results differ wildly depending on if the customer uses thin or thick disks and if there happen to be snapshots, for example....
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

VMPROCESSVMWITHPRDM under SPP

VMPROCESSVMWITHPRDM : This option allowss Sp for VE tolerates VM with RDMs. It is necessary because these SO VMs can't be saved with SPP.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Support for secure NDMP

NAS filer (i.e.NetApp) are supporting secure NDMP.This ensures secure communication between the NDMP server and the backup application.https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMLP2348067/html/GUID-E3157FCA-CAE6-4614-A549-557025A2EC46.html Spectrum Pro...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM needs basic functionality on ALL common OS:es

The TSM client segfaults on startup on Fedora 18. While Fedora 18 hasn't yet made it to the best-effort support category, IBM should at least try to have dsmc basic functionality on all common operating systems. I'm also told that Ubuntu 13.04 use...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Planned for future release

export server does not include scripts etc.

When running export server in order to import srversettings in an brand new server not everything is includen. I miss scripts, proxy settings, servr and node groups from the data exported out of the old server.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus: can only search for databases, not SQL Servers or instances.

From our DBA:"For SQL backup, how do I search by server or SQL Instance name? Currently, I can only search by a database name. When a SQL Instance has more than one databases, how do I select a SQL Instance and run the backup so that it will backu...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

The enhancement of the status of the backup job on the TSM Operations Center

System: TSM Operations Center(OC)Actor: The user who wants to check the status of the backup job on the TSM OC. The TSM OC is a new console of Tivoli Storage Manager. Description: When we run the backup commands (jobs) using the TSM B/A client (CL...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

backup and restore to windows cifs share without explicitly using net use

Currently in order to backup a windows cifs share, to do a snapdiff or otherwise, you need to issue a "net use" as a pre command to a scheduled backup. This is an extra step in configuration/scripting that shouldn't be necessary. This also makes i...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

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