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Storage Protect Family

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Spectrum Protect support for gluster filesystems

Spectrum Protect client should support the gluster filesystem.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Deactivate Data for Sybase ASE Backups

Would be nice if Sybase ASE API backups can bemarked inactive using the "deactivate data"command. Currently we rely on a home grown script which is not that reliable.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

BMR -TSM client should contain a very small set of files to run on WinPE (w/o java etc)

BMR -TSM client should contain a very small set of files to run on WinPE (w/o java etc).TSM Client is bigger than the rest of a WinPE BootCD and also containing unneeded files like JAVA. This need more time to load the image into RAM during boot a...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

More ways to get occupancy on data en dedup storage

In a hosted environment it would be nice, if there were several different/more advanced ways to get occupancy amount for data stored in deduplication storage pools.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Planned for future release

Domain statement honoured by archive process

Many customers need to do monthly/yearly Full backups. An archive is not an option since all filespaces to be included in the archive must be manually added. Systemstate info is not included in an archive and the DOMAIN statement is not honoured b...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

remove DP SQL MMC configuration deficiency when handling multiple instances

The DP SQL MMC is only able to handle very simple setups with single SQL instances or multiply SQL instances backing up to a single client node. This is not realistic. When using multiply instances, one usually has to use different client nodes fo...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Do not register mount proxy nodes in configuration wizard

After installation, the Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments GUI needs to be configured. URL: https://localhost:9081/TsmVMwareUI/ If the GUI is called for the first time, the Configuration Wizard automatically starts. At the definition of the...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Add a status message to dsmwebcl.log on startup indicating POLLING or PROMPTED mode

Please add a status message to dsmwebcl.log on startup indicating whether POLLING or PROMPTED mode is being used, as well as the polling period (if polling).
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

scheduled command messages are wrapped in activity log - ANR2753I

When ANR messages are logged as a result of commands run inside of an administrative schedule, the messages are wrapped at approx 40 characters. see ANR2753I. This makes programmatic processing of the logs very difficult. Log messages should never...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration