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Storage Protect Family

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RENAME COLLOCGROUP command requested

Provide the ability to rename collocation groups with a command similar to RENAME COLLOCGROUP.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add deletfiles option in Archive in the New BA Web Client 3.0

Large Customer delegates a lot of Users as Self Service to use Backup and Archive Web Client to use Archive. They have a policy to delete files once archived files is completed.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Define a launch window by SLA

The need is to be able to set an SLA time from which everything left in the queue in the SLA is canceled.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Migration process should skip locked files

Under certain conditions, the TSM server will try to migrate volumes that are locked by client backup sessionsl and simply wait for the volume to free up. This happens on a long-running (slow) backdup, or when a session does not terminate properly...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Restore Performance of an SQL Database using ISP4VE

When using Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment with Application Consistent Backup for SQL Databases, the restore Performance for SQL Database is far to slow.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM Clean Frequency enhancement

Please allow a terabyte option in addition to gigabytes for the clean frequency for tape drives.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

IT Infrastruct Analyst

Based on the case TS003038751, we would like to suggest the improvement in the product IBM Spectrum Protect Plus hypervisor inventory. When I have some host in "maintainance mode" in Vsphere environment the jobs show a lot warmings logs because o ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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

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