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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 ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under 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...
almost 7 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

Spectrum Protect 8.1.11 supports for RHEL 8.3

Spectrum Protect 8.1.11 don't support RHEL 8.3.We heard Spectrum Protect 8.1.13 will support RHEL 8.3 from STSC.My customer wants to use Spectrum Protect 8.1.11 with RHEL 8.3.We would like to support Spectrum Protect 8.1.11 for RHEL8.3.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Node replication at lower priority

Ability to have 'repl node' command run at a lower, or user definable, priority.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

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

TSM4VE - requirement of Windows proxy for file-level restore in Linux environments

Setting up a TSM4VE file-level restore for Linux in a Linux only environment requires a Windows based TSM4VE proxy. Customer requested support for a Linux only based TSM4VE proxy instead.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Decommissioning Commands

To implement a "DECOM NODE" command so node is automatically renamed as per default configuration and data to be automatically deleted when provided retention period is reached
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Planned for future release

Different retention policies (Time) for SAP HANA Backup

customers wants to use of existing SAP HANA backup data to satisfy business needs for weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly data collections without using different nodes for the identical machine
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration