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Storage Protect Family

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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

Allow individual filespaces to be decommissioned - specifically for use with NAS nodes and Netapp NDMP backups

Currently TSM (Spectrum Protect) offers two DECOMMISSION commands which are DECOMMISSION NODE and DECOMMISSION VM. However for NAS (NDMP) backups typically a node will be configured for each filer which will have numerous volumes being backed up v...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Adding a time out for server migration

Dear SP development team, We have been using TSM for decades long since v5.x and upgraded our TSM server to V8.1.10 last year. However, the new release v8.1 has not changed the behavior during migration: As we noticed some migration process hang t...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

HyperVFull backup command failing when guests not available

HyperVFull backup command failing when guests not available. even though hyper-v guests not availabe backup command should returned return code ZERO instead of 12.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

backport (AIX) 8.1.14.x server fixes to 8.1.13.x

There are a number of fixes included in Spectrum Protect server 8.1.14.0 (plus some DB2 security fixes just postponed to 8.1.14.100). However, 8.1.14.x drops support for AIX 7.1. Having to also upgrade (still supported) AIX 7.1 to AIX 7.2 or 7.3 j...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

SPP: use OpenJDK for vSnap VADP Proxy

Currently SPP installs openJDK pkg during installation and upgrade phase. However Oracle Java is still beign used for VADP proxy of vSNAP server. Due to licensing we would appreciate if only one Java has been used.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

Backup Client for Debian Linux

Debian und viele andere Linuxdistributionen (z.B. Ubuntu, Univention, Knopix, ...) nutzen nicht das RedHat Packeage format rpm, sondern ein anderes Format namens .deb. Damit ist man bei der Erstellung der Pakete immer auf zusätzliche Konvertierung...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM VE backups snapshots filling up datastore and crashing VM.

Please add an option in TSM that automatically cancels a VM backup when the snapshot is filling up the datastore. Without this functionality, the VM will crash and often requires extensive work for the VMware administrator to clean up the mess and...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Add columns to the Servers table for Version, Release and Level info

The server / storage agent version, release and level info is reported by the QUERY SERVER FORMAT=DETAILED command. However the same information is absent from the SELECT * FROM SERVERS command. This makes attempts to automate configuration manage...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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