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Storage Protect Family

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Add tdp client for MSSQL on linux

TDP for MSSQL needed on Linux systems
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

TSM does not allow versioning of file-attributes only

TSM does not offer any possibility to do a backup with version control for only(!) the standard UNIX-file-permissions. In fact, TSM does not allow to backup the file-perms only, with or without versioning.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Multiple data movers

Multiple data movers
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Enumerate VMs to be backed up

Enumerate VMs to be backed up
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

ISP Installer and GTK2/libXrender

If you have installed the GTK2 bundle (as described in the installation guide, ISP 8.1.12, AIX 7.2) and probably updated the RPMs to a more recent level (that is not the problem) then you run into this problem: GUI Installer/Instance Installer The...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM for Space Management - file expiration

The current release of TSM for Space Management (Unix) has a migfileexpiration option that "Specifies the number of days a copy of a migrated or premigrated file remains in storage after it is modified on your local file system, or deleted from yo...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 3 Not under consideration

Allow configuration of filespace for Hyper-V backups

When you backup a Hyper-V VM using the "backup vm" command, the files representing the VM are stored in their own filespace. This effectively excludes them from expiration on deletion, as filespace aren't subject to expiration. When a VM is delete...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Automatic Backup of DB when Active Log becomes full

when the Active Log become full the TSM Server Crashes. why not implement the same functionality as Archive Log ?? Archive Log when it reaches 80% a database backup is triggered to be able to reclaim space
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

SPP 10.1.1 removed ability for user to change their own password?

In SPP 10.1.1, it appears a natively defined user is not able to change their own password which is a change from previous version of 10.1.0.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Exclude a Linux disk from TSM for VE backup

On Linux virtual machines, exclude disks from TSM/VE backups by their scsi number (e.g. scsi0, scsi1). TSM/VE can query Virtual Center, so it should know everything from that about each virtual machine and its disk(s).
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

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