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Storage Protect Family

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SPP Enhanced VMs view. Colomns sorting.

Enhanced the view of the VMs. Sorting by columns. Adding colums in the view so we can see options selected per VMS. Options per VMs in a reports also.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

More filter options for the QUERY ACTLOG command

The ACTLOG table/view contains around 14 fields and the majority of these have corresponding options which can be used to filter the output of QUERY ACTLOG. For example MSGNO=, NODENAME=, SESSNUM=. However the list of fields that can be used as fi...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

HP StoreOnce Catalyst Integration for TSM

HP StoreOnce Catalyst enables deduplication to be deployed in flexible, cost effective ways that were not previously possible. It provides enhanced multi-site and cascaded replication options to balance performance, cost, and resiliency. Exploitin...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

improvement for 'Generate backupset' to support SQL and Exchange filespaces

Backupsets are a great way to handle data to be stored for long term retention. Lots of TSM customers use backupsets for that purpose. Alas it's not possible to generate a backupset for filespaces containing data from TDP backups such as SQL and E...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

prioritize free space balancing in container storage pool directories more efficiently

For example: rather than filling some directories up to 100% while leaving others at 40%, have all directories at 60%Currently experiencing an ongoing issue for over 1 year where directories are maxing out at 100% full because it fills them up wit...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Add option to backup VM with Shared Virtual Hard Disks.

With the current release of IBM Spectrum Protect for Hyper-V, VM's with Shared virtual disks cannot be backed-up (error message: ANS2552E Backup of a virtual machine that has a shared virtual hard disk is not supported.). Add an option similar lik...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Better client messaging for unsuported node replication settings needed

A better client messaging is needed to better find the root cause of incorrect node replication settings.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Problem with EXCLUDE/INCLUDE Backup (Option SET FORCE=NO)- overwrite global exclude/include to some local server

Hello LABS,it would be important to notify IBM Labs Spectrum Protect to put a check on the "define clientopt" command which signals the warning message if you want to set the FORCE = NO / YES option with the option_name = INCLEXCL or DOMAIN, it si...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Smartcard Authentication for VE web GUI

Our organization enforces the use of smartcards or tokens to authenticate to servers, workstations, and applications. We are requesting that IBM add a smartcard option to the Spectrum Protect for VE "Web GUI".
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Add WAIT=YES and Nodename masking options to GENERATE DEDUPSTATS

I would like to request the addition of a WAIT=YES parameter and node name masking to the GENERATE DEDUPSTATS command. It is a long-running command and it would be nice to be able to script the QUERY DEDUPSTATS command to run immediately upon comp...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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