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Storage Protect Family

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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

Extend "deactivate data" to other applications, not only limited to Oracle

Currently, the "deactivate data" command is limited to Oracle data. It should be expanded to include the other application data such as DB2, SQL, etc. Also add the filespace option to the command.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 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

ODBC Enhancements for TSM 6.3

To enable access to data from the TSM Database, TSM until Version 5 enabledODBC using a TSM administrative user with limited authority. Since TSM6,ODBC is via the DB2 ODBC connect.The TSM ODBC connect documentation only describes TSM ODBC access u...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

increase IBM Spectrum Protect transfer rates to SWIFT/S3 capable ObjectStore

Current data chunks aggregation rate between TSM's deduplication engine and HTTP PUTs is too low to take full advantage of huge bandwidth SWIFT ObjectStore can provide, especially when Erasure Coded data placements algorithm is used.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

Restore a VM without choose a specific /site/repository/archive cloud /etc

Hello support, We created 2 policy (SLA_site1 / SLA_site2 ) that we affected to Datastores on each site . So VM can be on the policy SLA_SITE1 or SLA_SITE2 depending of their location when we backup them. Now we want to restore a backup from a spe...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add a administrative socket to the SP server

Add a administrative socket to the dsmserv process, or a alternative way to send commands to the running process at the local system.Using the the dsmadmc is relay hard for scripting and always needs password to be specified.A socket is simple to ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 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

TSM instance incompatibility with git in IBM's Linux Toolbox

The problem appears to be that when login to the tsm instance account, which includes this in the ~/.profile file: # The following three lines have been added by IBM DB2 instance utilities. if [ -f /tsm/sqllib/db2profile ]; then . /tsm/sqllib/db2p...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

CAN SE CLIENTNAME=<NODE_NAME>

When running tsm command:Q SE CLIENTNAME=<NODE_NAME>The output can be a numbers of sessions.Therefore it would be great to cancel all sessions in one command:CAN SE CLIENTNAME=<NODE_NAME>
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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