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SPP - Change Message "CTGGA2192" from Error to Warning

Change Message "CTGGA2192: No volumes were replicated because there were no new snapshots. Please ensure that the backup completed successfully and the frequency of the Replication is less than the backup frequency." from Error to Warning. If ther...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Allow multi-threaded backups/archive/expire via FileList methodology

Currently, we lose any multi-threading when we use the FileList parameter. The request is to allow multiple files to be specified, which can be handled by multiple threads (up to a specific maximum, when would then process the files in order but s...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

The problem of ANE4007E in your case is because you try to backup CITRIX files with a Reparse Tag IO_REPARSE_TAG_CITRIX_PM (

We are not able to backup user profiles for windows server that belongs to citrix environement.Refer IBM case id for etailed information about case and let me kow if more information needed for thia case.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Administraive user on Filer

for clustured-data ONTAP NetApp filers, the only capability that is required is ontaoapi with the admin role
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Bring lin_tape source into the Linux kernel

The lin_tape drivers are causing us trouble either when the OS kernel is being updated, or if the drivers need an update. Keeping a high patch level for security patches is very important on backup servers, since the backup servers generally have ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

GPFS+TSM+HSM: staging vs. migration priority

What we are looking for is a configuration based parameter what willbasically break out of the "transparency for the user" mode, and notperform any further recalling, period, if|when the file systemoccupancy is above a certain threshold (98%). We ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 0 Not under consideration

Support AES-Features of CPU

The encryption in TSM is handled by the GSKcrypt-library. Since GSKit 8.0 the library supports the hardware-encryption for several CPUs, like:- SPARC- Intel- PowerUsing VMWare 6.0 one can even use this CPU-feature in a VM. TSM Clients should be en...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Audit library checkl=barcode should be possible even if tapes are mounted

Audit library checklabel=barcode should be possible without dismounting all tape-drives.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Allow signed certificates instead of only self-signed for TSM TDP VMWare GUI website

The certificate being used for the website is self-signed and give a error in browser and VMware Vsphere client
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Want TSM TDP for SQL client to exclude offline SQL DBs from backups and log a message about the same in the log file.

Want TSM TDP for SQL client to exclude offline SQL DBs from backups and log a message about the same in the log file. Currently what happens is whenver TDP SQL backup encounter an offline SQL DB backup get failed for DB and return code for the bac...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration