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Storage Protect Family

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TSM Image Backup of encrypted Guardium FS (secfm)

Current Situation and urgent request for enhancement: In our customer environment and according projects encryption services for a Filesystems or Databases are introduced on a regular basis. TSM as our backup suite therefore needs the ability to h...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Migrate data from one cloud storage pool to another cloud storage pool

We need feature to migrate data from one cloud container storage pool to another cloud container storage pool using "move nodedata" as it's currently only support sequencial storage pool but won't support container storage pools
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future 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 ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

Increase overview on status of VM backup for administrators

When viewing status for protection of VM backup in Spectrum Protect for Virtual Enviorments, whether in OC or in WebClient we should show what type of backup was successful. Did backup success quiesced or not, is it Microsoft VSS, or VMDDK, or cra...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Select All function in search result of BAClient GUI for NAS restore

Select All function in search result of BAClient GUI for NAS restore
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

ADD FUNCTION ON CLI (SELECT) FOR IBM SPECTRUM FOR VE

From gui view it's possible to implement the search "VM WHITOUT BACKUPS".We would add this function at CLI level.In this way I will can schedule a weekly reports.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM Admin Sched returns completed even when it fails

backup admin scheds ALWAYS returns completed, even when it fails.A 'backup db' administrative schedule for example. If any option specified is incorrect, the backup db will fail, but the schedule returns completed !!! In my opinion it should retur...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Cross-platform/device recovery of NDMP backups

Client has requested the ability to recovery NDMP files to a non-NAS recovery target, for example a Windows server.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Client 8.1 : Option to remove maximum number of nested directory check or increase the value.

In IBM Spectrum Protect Client 8.1 the fix for IT13701 (http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IT13701) prevents us from backing up our mail server structure which legitimately has more than 1400 nested subdirectories. There should be a...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 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

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