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Storage Protect Family

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syslog receiver for linux

Feature to allow TSM to externalise events through a reciver that can put events into syslog without the need for external scripting.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 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...
almost 3 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.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

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

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.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

‘Max retries' and ‘wait time' value for VM backups

One of our TDPVE datamover has been logging the following message for 3 days:ANS0361I DIAG: The VDDK Utility Thread may be hung processing another request.ANS0361I DIAG: Waiting up to another 3600000 milliseconds to process a request to VddkFullVM...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 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.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

Advanced Analytics and cataloging for Spectrum Protect

At present, Spectrum Protect does not seem to provide an advanced method of querying its database to find things such as duplicated files around the environment, file ownership, usage by owner, etc. This capability can make it difficult to find ob...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect for Virtusl Enviroments

Hello, The tech note tells me do not backup the guests using one schedule due to the 512 charter limitation. We want to use one schedule. Currently TSM for VE backup schedules will only backup one schedule at a time, if the schedule doesn't comple...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

TDP for Oracle Parallel Backup to Multiple TSM Servers

Backup/restore performance in TSM TDP environments can be increased through the addition of TSM servers that rman uses for backups and restores. A solution that does not require manual scripting would make this functionality easier to use and offl...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

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