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Storage Protect Family

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IBM Spectrum Protect for IBM i BRMS

As per Jeff's email belowFrom: Jeff Fosmo/Rochester/IBM@IBMUSTo: David Bhaskaran/Rochester/IBM@IBMUSCc: Jose Mao-Cheia/South Africa/IBM@IBMZA, Deon George/Australia/IBM@ibmau, Paul Maguire/UK/IBM@ibmgb, Redouane Acheche1/United Arab Emirates/IBM@i...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM for VE add information to better estimate meta data size

The current existing information in version 6.4 given by the command 'dsmc query VM <vmname> -detail' gives some details about the VM guest backups like : number of objects making up the backup, fragmentation, etc. but there is no easy way t...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Enhanced security for admin access to Protect

Administrative access to Spectrum Protect (including but not limited to the WebUI) has a weak security model.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

Support Request-Spectrum Protect with SteelFusion

We would like IBM to look at Spectrum Protect and a product called SteelFusion working together as a supported configuration for CBI (Chicago Bridge & Iron)
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Wildcard Support for VMFolder option in TSM4VE

We have different retention requirement for VM backup. so I was wondering if wild card is supported than we would not have to modified OPT file every time we add new customer..
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

INCLUDE INACTIVATION DATE IN QUERY BACKUP

Include a new column showing the inactivation date of inactive objects in the output of dsmc query backup. i.e. dsmc q ba -ina -subdir=yes -showinactivationdate /mydir/* Also, it would be vastly simplify parsing if the dsmc client could do tab del...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

DELETE FILESPACE FROM STORAGE POOL (ESPECIALLY COPY)

Allow DELETE FILESPACE to specify a storage pool. i.e. delete filespace <nodename> <filespace> stgpool=<stgpool>
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM Fastback Server has extremely slow read operations from disk

TSM Fastback Server has extremely slow read operations from disk:- all restore operations with both methods, Fastback Mount and Fastback BMR,- DR to TSM and- long term proxy backups to TSM.The speed of restore does not exceed 10Mbit/s (aggregate) ...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

64 bit support for TSM System Backup and Recovery

TSM for System Backup and Recovery runs in 32 bit only mode, making it impossible to run with the latest TSM client and TDP levels. My customer is a long time Sysback customer and uses it to write bootable backups to TSM. They now must move to a 6...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Planned for future release

Operation Center Report Interval

TSM Operation center reports scheduling is limited. Some reports for management are more useful at monthly, quarterly or even yearly intervals, however currently the only supported schedules are daily or weekly. Adding additional duration options ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration