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Storage Protect Family

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SPP: Implement link feature for jobs

Currently SPP only offers a job scheduling by time. To leverage the backup (and replication) window at a maximum, it would be great to have a "link feature" for jobs.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Verify Management Class Contraints on Node Migration

When moving/migrating a TSM node from one TSM domain to another, and in the target TSM domain the management class used in the source does not exist in its policiy definitions, the default management class is used. The fall back to the default man...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Restore more than 1 VM at the time with the tdpve web gui

Restore Multiple VMS at ones from the web Gui from the same job ibm spectrum protect virtual environments
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

non-root users access behaviour with version SP 8

Customer needs for SP version 8 to allow "other users" (non-root users and not "authorized users" for SP point of view) to use dsmc in order to restore their files The requirement is to continue with behaviour as per TSM 7.16 (https://www.ibm.com/...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

This applies to Spectrum CDM: Treeview of copies

Why don't you add a graphical view of the copies ? It is not easy manage the copies without having a global view of source disks and related copies. Something similar to the attached picture or by exploring a treeview
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

This applies to Spectrum CDM: Backup on AIX nodes managed by PowerHA

The High Availability configuration of Power AIX systems is made up of two or more real nodes to which volumes and IP addresses are associated and then managed by PowerHA. In this configuration there are therefore at least three types of volumes:...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

This applies to Spectrum CDM: Full Copy

By default backup jobs create the first copy as a full copy on thin volumes. Being a full copy, the 80% threshold set as a warning value is always exceeded, generating emails and alarm events. Is it possible to set by default the value to 0 (disab...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

This applies to Spectrum CDM: Massive initial load

During the system configuration phase, it would be useful to be able to do the massive import of providers and identities (whether they are passwords or keyfiles). This would drastically reduce time spent to setup the environment.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

This applies to Spectrum CDM: Actions on multiple selected object

If we have to hold/release several jobs we have to do it on each single job. Selecting all the jobs the only available action is "Delete", which is the most dangerous option. I think it can be very helpful for the day by day activity to enable al...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Containerpool Backup to File Device Class

Add support for backup of Directory Container Pools to Copypools using File Device Class.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

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