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Storage Protect Family

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Collocation for Cloud-Container Storage pool

System: IBM Spectrum Protect v7.1.7 or v8.1 (TSM) Requirement: Customer want to collocate data for Cloud Container STGPOOLWe archive medical data of hundreds of Hospitals (with hundreds of servers) to tape using collocation by node. Collocation op...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

add NetApp SnapVault Scheduling and File Indexing to SPP

In Spectrum Protect Plus it should be possible to trigger NetApp SnapVault snapshots to NetApp Secondary Storage Systems on Prem or on Cloud and to list existing snapshots and index the files they contain. Possible restores should also be triggere...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Ignore/Skip Windows RC Codes during Backup

As you can see in the PMR we got a big problem with some files on a netapp filer. This files were created by randomly by netapp filer. Problem is that these files have no owner, or other NTFS securitys so an windows RC appears if the BA Client try...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

Generate Archive set

The amount of data are always growing but the transfer rate between client and server is still very slow and IBM and many other backup software are trying to solve the data transfer by using Duplication. Normally are a client only doing a Archive ...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

dsm.opt file getting blanked out when disk is full

We have observed couple of times that on Windows BA client dsm.opt file is getting banked out. dsm.opt size becomes 0 bytes and file is empty. We are using node replication. When disk is full and node replication is being used then while running b...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Is a defect

disable event actlog ANR2034

I think it would be very nice if it was possible to disable the "ANR2034" from the actlog: disable event actlog ANR2034 I have a lot of them, and they dont give me ANY valuable information at all.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

multiple backup cycles support in TSM for VE.

Multiple backup cycles support for each VMDKs is needed.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Option to display session and process numbers without commas

Displaying sessions (q sess) or processes (q pro) without commas will allow an administrator to cut/paste session/process numbers into other commands (can sess xxxxx) quickly and accurately . this will eliminate the need to display and manually in...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Ability to migrate TSM DB from AIX to x86 Linux server

Our Server Support team manages and supports hundreds of x86 Linux and MS Windows servers, and are very efficient and adept at doing so. They have retired all older Solaris and AIX servers. However, we still run our TSM servers on AIX, because tha...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Hyper-V support on Windows Nano or Core servers

Customer has about to move from VMware to Hyper-V for the hypervisor. They are going to install Hyper-V on Windows Nano or Core and they are looking for either of these to become a supported platform for the Data Mover and the Recovery Agent.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

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