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    Centralized include/exclude list for VM backups

    Please provide a central location for managing include/excludes for individual VMs, like a client options set.
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Web GUI refresh

    Customer is clicking on a drive to monitor drive status. Due to automatic web GUI refresh, previously marked drive is moving up or down in drive list (depending on previously sort selection). But this is annoying from customer point of view: Previ...
    over 5 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Is a defect

    AIX Client install move the Client Acceptor Daemon (dsmcad) from Web Client package to the base package.

    In our environment we don't use the Web Client, but we need the CAD to run the scheduler, moving this to the base package would mean one less package to install. We noticed that dsmcad is required to run the webclient, but the webclient is not req...
    7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    Support for vCenter 6.7 U1

    Support for vCenter 6.7 U1
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

    Requesting Support for 2-Factor Authentication with Spectrum Protect

    As backup data is a primary tool used to recover from ransomware, ensuring the highest level of security surrounding the protection of TSM / Spectrum Protect data has been highlighted by Information Security. Having administrative accounts which h...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

    Add ability to create long term snapshot of TSM for VE data

    At present, TSM for VE is suitable for storing short to medium term data. Where regulatory type backups such as 1-7 year retention backups are required, a separate node using the traditional Backup Archive Client needs to be set up to perform this...
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Space and container usage on SP server

    Ever since directory container pools was introduced, the "undocumented / unsupported" command: show sdpool has been the best/only way of managing free, used and unavailable space in the dedup/non-dedup containers. In many cases a manual "move cont...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    TS7700 I/O Priority

    Problem Description:All systems (Test or Production) sharing the same TS7700 cluster or GRID get the same priority/throughput independent of its importance.Request:Implement the possibility to set a priority for each LPAR/Sysplex using the same TS...
    about 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    TS7700 MI Backup Setting

    Automation for backup setting in TS7700. Create a scheduler mechanism in TS7700 MI or CLI (LIB Command) for automate the backup setting. Industry: Banking, Insurance, Finance and Health..
    about 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    different failoverhladdresses for nodes

    there is only the option to set failoverhladdress globally. but if there are tsmnodes coming through many different interfaces, there is no way to set this for each interface or at least node-specific
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

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