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Storage Protect Family

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Support for Sony Library ODS-L30M

Support for Sony optical libraries (Sony ODS-L30M).Increase the support list in optical libraries for Spectrum Protect (TSM)
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Extend TSM4VE to allow for "incremental forever" VMWare backups

Need to be able to do VMWare incremental image backups without doing periodic full backups.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Planned for future release

"VM-GROUPs" for VMs

Possibility to build a Group for VMs like Nodegroups for easier handling with the backup vm schedule
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

Add client backup status, backup files, size, date details for report with dashboard to understand backup failure and success

Product Tivoli Fastbackup for workstations 7.1.4.0 We are unable to get correct meaning full report on low level for TFB clients.1.We want report with client name, user identity, start date of backup, last backup date, last backup error, successfu...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

Request for Function to decompress data for Storage Pool Migration

Request for function to decompress Data for Storage Migration pool. Currently, we have difficulty to migrate the Data backed up in Physical Tape Drive to new VTL Drive (Protectier + XIV) Data backed up in current Physical Tape Drive is compress by...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Obtaining SnapDiff backup base snapshot name

When running an incremental SnapDiff backup on NetApp volumes from the BA client, a differential snapshot is created on the NetApp in the beginning of each backup, and compared with the base snapshot remained from the previous backup. On the end o...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Support standards for browser interoperability

As per requirements listed at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21515628 TSM Admin Center requires an obsolete, broken, unsupported brain dead version of Firefox. According to the requirements, version 3.5 is required for full funct...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Planned for future release

Add ability to logically group multiple storage pool as 'Storage Groups'

Currently, all housekeeping jobs are done on a per storage pool basis. e.g.PARALLELmigrate stg pool1 lo=0 wait=yesmigrate stg pool2 lo=0 wait=yesmigrate stg pool3 lo=0 wait=yesSERIAL PARALLELreclaim stg pool1 thr=50 wait=yesreclaim stg pool2 thr=5...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Hard Link backup and restore on AIX

Hard link can not restore on a very specific situation.While the backup or restore the hard link in different time, the hard link will lose.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Azure support included as a Container Pool for Spectrum

We would like to have the ability to connect to Microsoft Azure for storage of our backups, or potentially to run our entire TSM environment in. Current disks available in Azure are too small to be used for storage pools, so would require access t...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration