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Storage Protect Family

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Stop automatically disassociation from SLA Policy

If for example one has DNS issue (it happens) and the SPP appliance fail to resolve, lets say a specific fileshare that is associated with a SLA.Then the SPP appliance desides that this fileshare is not longer there and removes it from the SLA..Th...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

seems deleting data from TSM trough TDP exchange client/console is allowed, even if on TSM node deleting backups and deleting archive is set to ‘NO’

Hi! We had an open point/call with IBM , seems deleting data from TSM trough TDP exchange client/console is allowed, even if on TSM node deleting backups and deleting archive is set to ‘NO’ My suggestion is to add some features to block this becau...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Future consideration

ISP DP for SQL Powershell in AlwaysON Environment / restore Script

This Script (Command Line Interface) allows us to do faster restore compare to the Graphical User Interface. MMC GUI has long wait time when restore inactive backup's as described in the case (TS004928519). In a case of ransomware we can't accept ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

Protect S3 object client via storage rule for copying data

We are using SPP and want that the VMs are directly restorable in a DR case. Currently we are using on the ISP server a directory container and protect it with "protect stgp" via copycontainer and stgrule (copy data -> offsite tape) to be prepa...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

RMAN plugin required

We are changing our environment to separate failure domains across data center. To be safe but nearly synchronous our Oracle database will be (nearly) synchronized by Oracle dataguard based on Oracle ExaCC.To continue the backup solution with the ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Force Cancel Sessions and Processes

We need to be able to force cancel sessions and processes on the TSM server. This is a must have.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

move stgpooldir command

I'd like to se a command likemove stgpooldir <oldstgpooldir> <newstgpooldir>that move all containers in one stgpooldir to another automatiacally and in the background.or change the move container command to accept wildcard and a maxnum...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SPP support for Tanzu environments

backup/restore support for K8s running on Tanzu (PVC and etcd etc.) with SPP
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Node replication based on managementclass or storagepool

Currently node replication can only be issued on a node/filespace basis and backup/archive data. A big global bank has the requirement to replicate all data cross country which are older than 5 years. The data can't be distinguished by filespace o...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

We would like to be able to backup AWS S3 buckets

We have many AWS S3 buckets that users update every day. Versioning is very expensive as there is no dedup/compression and this is especially true if you replicate across AWS regions. We would like to be able to backup and restore files to S3 like...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

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