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Spectrum Protect Plus support for TLS1.2 for VMware v6.0

Currently, TLS1.2 is supported for vSphere6.5+. Request for TLS1.2 support for VMware vSphere v6.0 for SPP v10.1.1.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 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
almost 9 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...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

dsmc query backup -detail show all volume IDs

dsmc query backup xxx -detail only display one volume id, please display all volumes IDs or volume_names used by xxx objects.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

resync backup after loss of the cbt

The vmware backup mechanism is based on the vmware CBT to make incremental backups. After an esx crash, the cbt is reset and a FULL backup is made (new base backup). a resync backup feature will be helpful this would take a lot of time to resync b...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Cancel multiple client sessions

Having a run to a server with many many client sessions, how can many being canceled by one single command?
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

AUDIT VOLUME command enhancement

One of the features of the current AUDIT VOLUME command is that while an audit process is active, clients cannot restore data from the specified volume or store new data to that volume. This can be a significant issue for audit volume processes th...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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

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

RFE to allow exclusion of files and folders from a VE backup

When doing VM backup using TSM4VE, is there any way to exclude swap and C:\temp from the backup? They take up considerable space and resources even if everything gets deduplicated out eventually. Type Amount inspected [GB] Amount backed up [GB]VM ...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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