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Storage Protect Family

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Multiple COPY backup types for TDP for SQL

Currently there is one database backup type for daily backups (full/differential) and one for copy backups. DBAs often require backups to be held for other retentions, and this currently can only be done by creating multiple TSM nodes. Additionall...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement to OC when removing monitored server

Removing a spoke from hub causes error when custom report is defined for removed server. It would be useful to inform user about this or disable the report automatically. It would also be useful to be able to remove spoke from hub via OC.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM q proc command should show the node name or volume name which is processing

Whe the copy process for storagepool is running, i have no information which node is processing. I can happen, that 1 of x copy process is running much longer then other. The reason is, that on disk pool the copy process is working on node. It can...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

NDMP Support for Dell FluidFS with Spectrum Protect

The Dell FluidFS 8600 supports NDMP 2/3/4 and appears to work with Spectrum Protect backup/restore node. Please add this as a formally supported NDMP enabled device family.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

SPP BUG - Unable to remove a Schedule from a Report

After defining a schedule on a report, the schedule cannot be removed. If you 'untick' the schedule there is no option to click 'Save'. For custom reports, the workaround is the delete the report and start again, but for the default reports there ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

Messages Without Message IDs

A product family such as IBM Spectrum Protect has a great many components, each of which can have hundreds or even thousands of messages. With so many messages, the customer will need some method to find explanations. In general, many messages are...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Supporting more than 512 characters in the GUI of TDP4VE

You cannot use in the GUI scheduler of TDP4VE more than 512 characters to put VMClient in the backup
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

request client management service for AIX

client management service for AIX to use Operation Center functionality
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

BA/API client: Call 'vssadmin list writers' only when necessary

Spectrum Protect Client (BA/API) V8.1.0.0 on Windows unconditionally calls 'vssadmin list writers'.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Archive option for TSM for VE long term

Hi to keeping Long-term data retention with Virtual Machine, the listed solution is recomended from IBM.http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21651348However this solution has caveats such as not capable to expire exports very long run ...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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