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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

Support to include/exclude Nested Vmfolders

I was thinking of using VMFOLDER to select VMs. While trying to figure out the syntax for specifying a nested folder, the link (http://www-01. ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21432938) was brought to my attention. Basically, TSM VE only allows ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Do not register mount proxy nodes in configuration wizard

After installation, the Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments GUI needs to be configured. URL: https://localhost:9081/TsmVMwareUI/ If the GUI is called for the first time, the Configuration Wizard automatically starts. At the definition of the...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

VSAN and Sp. protect for VE

I need for a very big French customer that IBM spectrum Protect for VE VMware support backup / restore VM set up on VSAN
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

IBM SP for Exchange not truncating logs after Exchange backup

Microsoft Exchange version is 2016 version 15.1 build 1591.10. We have implemented IBM SP for Exchange and have initiated several full backups. Backup completed successfully but not truncating logs.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

domain.vmfull VMdatastore wildcards

TSM for VE with TSM Client 6.4 allow for automatic discovery and inclusion of virtual machines in FullVM backups by using domain.vmfull dsm.opt option.Option domain.vmfull allows to specify different options in order to include the "right" list of...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Lack of integration with IBM Spectrum Protect

Lack of an integration between IBM Spectrum Protect (SP) and IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management (CDM) using Pure Storage. Lack of this functionality is a major road block to deploy/adoption a supported combination of Pure, CDM and SP solution.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

TSM HADR with windows

Hi,i need a option for dsmserv which will prevent the restart of db2 or a flag whill start db2 with force in a hadr environment parameter. problem: 1. hadr configuration and the primary system went down2. on the standby i could start db2 with star...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Error message by failover form IPv6 to IPv4

Every time a server switches from IPv6 to IPv4 it throws an error message. A warning would be more appropriate.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Manager needs to support Metro Mirror or Metro Mirror with Consistency volumes

CDM needs to support Metro Mirror in addition to global mirror change volumes. This would decrease the need for additional space on the primary storage.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration