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Storage Protect Family

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Update notification for gui-clients when new version is available

We have a lot of not technically savvy customers (their pcs are not managed by the backup-admins) which are not checking for client updates on their own.I think it would be useful to have a popup notification when an client update is available (as...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

RMAN plugin required

We are changing our environment to separate failure domains across data center. To be safe but nearly synchronous our Oracle database will be (nearly) synchronized by Oracle dataguard based on Oracle ExaCC.To continue the backup solution with the ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Improve the error Prone Default Settings for Data Movers in TDP-VE

We recently upgraded to TDP-VE for VMware v8.1.23 and when adding a new data mover over the WebGUI provides the User with default settings to add to the local .opt file. Under Windows this cause an issue with the logfile location. Below are the se...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

Node replication based on managementclass or storagepool

Currently node replication can only be issued on a node/filespace basis and backup/archive data. A big global bank has the requirement to replicate all data cross country which are older than 5 years. The data can't be distinguished by filespace o...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

ISP DP for SQL Powershell in AlwaysON Environment / restore Script

This Script (Command Line Interface) allows us to do faster restore compare to the Graphical User Interface. MMC GUI has long wait time when restore inactive backup's as described in the case (TS004928519). In a case of ransomware we can't accept ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

SPP support for Bare Metal Recovery (OS Image) for Windows and Linux

SPP support for Bare Metal Recovery (OS Image) for Windows and Linux.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

cert_distribute.sh should allow customers to input path to dsmcert.kdb file

In the current cert_distribute.sh implementations as level 8.1.21 and 8.1.22 it is not possible to specify the path to the dsmcert.kdb file. The cert_distribute.sh script has a logic searching for the dsmcert.kdb file (function getWindowsCertKDBPa...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

cert_distribute.sh script should allow customized new client cert file names

In the current implementations, the cert_distribute.sh shell script at levels 8.1.21 and 8.1.22 is using random file names for the newly created client cert (crt) file. For customer environments with multiple, maybe hundreds of Storage Protect ser...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

SPP support for Tanzu environments

backup/restore support for K8s running on Tanzu (PVC and etcd etc.) with SPP
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

seems deleting data from TSM trough TDP exchange client/console is allowed, even if on TSM node deleting backups and deleting archive is set to ‘NO’

Hi! We had an open point/call with IBM , seems deleting data from TSM trough TDP exchange client/console is allowed, even if on TSM node deleting backups and deleting archive is set to ‘NO’ My suggestion is to add some features to block this becau...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Future consideration

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