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Storage Protect Family

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Change or add algorithm that TSM will use to select scratch tapes.

TSM DRM tapes are checked out of the tape library, and taken offsite for disaster recovery. When the tapes are returned from offsite, and put back into the library and go back to scratch status, the acquired count goes back to 0. The tapes get use...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

REST API as part of build test plan

The REST API is not being tested prior to packaging new Operation Center builds. This was found in 8.1.4 because a module version was upgraded, but not updated in the server.xml file. No one in L1 nor L2 knew about this issue, but it was immediate...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

Manage Automatic Move Container process

Create an option to manage the time that the IBM Spectrum Protect server can start the Automatic Move Container processes.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

LIN_Tape device driver support for RHEL RealTime Kernel

Customer is evaluating IBM Spectrum Protect and would like to have the ability to install/configure the IBM LIN_Tape-3.0.46-1.src.rpm (downloaded from IBM Fix Central) on the Real-time RHEL7.5 kernel. The customer is not able to successfully compi...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Allow globally to exclude a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job

Allow globally to exclude a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job, like the function to exclude complete VMs via the Policy Options or by using a specific VM tag.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP micro version

We are an IBM business partner and have small and large scale customers.Spectrum Protect Plus is set for 48 GB 1000 VMs with minimum ram requirement, but we also have many customers with 50 -100 VMs.These customers think 48 GB is too much for ram ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

VE file level restore lacks of indexing

Unable to quickly find deleted files without mounting all potential snapshots
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Enable REST API in Opscenter via Commandline not manually via Browser

Enabling REST API is only possible using a checkbox using a supported webbrowser. It might be helpful for automation issues to do this without manual intervention.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data management duplicate job option

Customer would like the ability in the jobs tab.The ability to right click a job and to duplicate.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Implement CRLs for SSL/TLS communications for ISP

DoD customer implementing IBM Spectrum Protect. Reviewing usage of PKI with IBM Spectrum Protect Server and Client. DoD requires the use of DoD provided Root Certificates and Certificate Revocation Lists. Currently IBM Spectrum Protect supports th...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration