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Storage Protect Family

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Full synthetic backups

To be able to create full synthetic backups without the need of performing full backups. Other competitors do it so why not TSM
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

File permission - default at 666, change to 644

The following have permissions set (by default) to 666: /etc/adsm/Nodes/<node_name>/spclicert.crl/etc/adsm/Nodes/<node_name>/spclicert.rdb/etc/adsm/Nodes/<node_name>/spclicert.kdb Setting at 644 works for root user. It is possibl...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

HOST Free SAN based data transfer

At present, TSM for SAN allows for a TSM Server free data transfer by mapping Tape drives to the client server. The data is then read in from the Disk subsystem via the host HBAs, and then read out to the Tape drives via the host HBAs dedicated to...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 2 Not under consideration

SVC integrated Host Free backup

Integrate the TSM backup agent with SVC/DS*/V7K storage technologies to allow for block based backpup similar to TSM for VE * CBT. This would likely be done by leveragingcurrent Flashcopy technologies which already maintain bitmaps of change block...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

HSM Slow Recall in LAN Free environment

got the following feedback from development: [...] as stated by GPFS development, the dm_request_right takes a lot of of execution time due to required context switches. More calls of dm_request_right causes the greater slowdown. So,in order to im...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 2 Not under consideration

Inheritable CLOPT

Allow the ability to nest client option sets such that they can inherit from each other.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Bootable restore CD with TSM 7.1 client GUI

We would like to have a bootable disk with a TSM 7.1 GUI for performing bare metal Windows OS restores on a server.We have created a Windows PE disk with the command line client version, which works.However, performing a restore from the command l...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Test SnapDiff with NetApp Infinite Volumes in Cluster mode

We need to have SnapDiff tested in Infinite Volumes on NetApps cluster mode. We currently are using NetApps 7-mode, but are in the process of upgrading these appliances to cluter mode. NetApp documentation states third party SnapDiff works in Infi...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Planned for future release

Allow Spectrum Protect web GUI to support SSL

After we upgraded SP from version 7.1 to 8.1.3 we lost the possibility to restore NAS filer via web GUI.We need to get back the feature to restore NAS filespaces via web GUI (or if you implement that the thick BA client can do the same operation)....
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

SSL Config for Spectrum Protect client

SSL Config is tied to TCPS name/ip, and this must match server certificate. A different method of validating the server certificate must be present. Possibilities in the dsm.opt may beSSLCheckFingerprint = FingerprintvalueSSLCheckCommonName=Server...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

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