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Storage Protect Family

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TSM4VE - scheduling and tagging at VM granularity

Can we remove the following limitation ?Customer would like to use TAGGING at VM level, not at FOLDER level, without changing or replanning the whole VMs infrastructures.He would like to tag & schedule some VM to daily backup, some other (may ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Implement recommission* node in OC

Missing the possibility to recommission a node or vm with the OC. Only the command decommission is available.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 3 Future consideration

Re-instate prereq check script in 7.1 install

In the 6.3 installation tar file there was a pre-req check script. This is no longer available in 7.1. please re-instate the functionality
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM aware of VTLs features (dedup and replication)

Copying client data using node replication requires a lot of bandwidth and many customers don´t want to use TSM dedup since they already have dedup atVTL levels (protectier and datadomain). It would be great if TSM server could be aware of VTL rep...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Periodic Backup of Backed up Data (Monthlies etc)

If a TSM administrator needs to take periodic, i.e. weekly, monthly, half year, year end additional copies of data other than 'file/unstructured' the administrator must currently create additional schedules to take additional copies. A lot of envi...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

SCDM On IBM Spectrum Virtualize can not do FC/GM Workflow

when crating an SLA selecting Spectrum Virtualize, can not doa FC then GM workflow, this is fully supported by the storage
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SCDM 3-site replication target support

on FS storage when a 3-site replication is setup, SCDM can not do any action on the 3-site replication target volume
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TSM replication process duration

I think a duration parameter will be great with the replication process of TSM. Duration also exist with expiration, reclamation so why not implement this also with replication
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

If TSM hasn't got Full backup of SQL DB, raise Diff/log backup to Full

Now when a 'tdpsqlc backup diff' backup runs for a SQL db instance only DB's with existing Full backup are backed up. DB's that have just been created will make the schedule that starts the backup fail with an error in the tdpsqlc log like this: "...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect PLUS support RedHat v6.4

Important Telco company (Vodefaone) need to support RedHat v6.4 with Spectrum Protect PLUS.They have some internal applications and it's impossible to upgrade RH version.The objective it's to protect (with SPP) Oracle 11g.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

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