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IBM Exchange Mailbox recovery tool takes a long time open a small mailbox

In our SPP training lab we have 5 DAG's separated on 10 Servers. The DAG consists of 2 dedicated Exchange Servers Each.When trying to open a Mail Box using the tool after the SPP granular recovery completes. It can take between 15 to 20 minutes to...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add parm to allow some control over the calculation of available space to avoid false positive ANS1311E errors

Add a parm that could specify the estimated amount of data reduction to use when calculating if the storage pool has sufficient space. so setting this parm to 75 would tell TSM to assume the pending backup is going to get at least a 75% reduction,...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

allow non default dsm.opt and tdpexch.cfg file for remote management

It is possible to configure the MMC GUI on Exchange server to use non default dsm.opt and tdpexch.cfg files. Managing backup from a non Exchange server is not possible if the Exchange server is configured with non default dsm.opt and tdpexch.cfg.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

Error message should be reported when backup attempted of whole nameless removable drive in Windows

Hi, I submitted this as case TS001718427 but was advised to use an RFE instead. It's as follows: We've found that no warning is issued when complete backup is attempted of a removable drive that has no name. If trying to select *files* (or folders...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Searching Indexing File Search Results Would Show Ownership and Permissions

Customer has a desire to view the file ownership and permission on each file once a search is done on the global index
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Change incremental action on change to ACL or xattr

Currently, TSM will back up an entire file if the ACL or extended attributes of the file are changed, rather than updating the metadata. See:https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21448429 This leads to a lot of duplicate backups, and ...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

SP Command builer stand-alone port for windows/linux

Create a stand-alone or dsmadmc integrated version for windows and/or Linux of the SP Command builder currently integrated in the SP-OC.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Use a linux web client to do NDMP restores

There does not appear to be a way to restore a NDMP backup via a linux GUI client. This means that in order to do a restore a windows server needs to be provisioned, maintained and available purely for restoration purposes.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

APFS support in the TSM Mac Client

Apple plan to release the Apple File System (APFS) in 2017: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/APFS_Guide/Introduction/Introduction.html A preview of APFS is already available in macOS 10.12 Sierra....
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Be able to send individual node data that resides in directory container pools to tape

Customer would like the ability to send the data from individual nodes whose data resides in directory container pools to tape.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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