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Storage Protect Family

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TSM for VE / Reporting Enhancement / Daily Backup Status by Datamover Schedule Level

Daily Status of TSM/VE backups at Data Mover Schedule Level to show the following: . Scheduled start . Actual start . Actual finish . Schedule name . Datamover TSM Name . Datamover hostname . Backup Completion status . Error code
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 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

Over calculation of space needed for NDMP backup

When attempting to do an NDMP backup of a virtual filespace, instead of looking at the amount of data in the filespace that is being backed up, TSM looks at the entire used storage of the NAS filer to determine whether the storage pool target is l...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Please Expand the Maximum value for HSMMAXRECALLTAPEDRIVES

The maximum value for HSMMAXRECALLTAPEDRIVES is too low to use. I wish the maximum value can be set up to 128.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

Business unit field per VM

For reporting purpose it would be useful to have an option to add information per VM.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future 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

Alerts frequency for Spectrum Protect Serves

We would like to request that an update to the code for the alerts frequency to be an adjustable settings, since as of now, it alerts every hour and cannot be changed.Thanks!
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Data Shredding on Container Storage Pools

In some multi-tenancy TSM environments using Container Storage Pools there may be a requirement to prove to a specific user that data belonging to a backup client has been deleted from the Storage Pool. Even after the reuse delay has elapsed, it i...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

CDM support for VVols

Customer is looking for CDM to support full VVols functionality. VVols is running in production in this customer site.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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