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Storage Protect Family

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Make TSM for VE a "HA" solution

During the backup the virtual machine is “freezed” (which seems the normal way the “quiescing” that VM initiates on behalf of the backup application is done). As the customer is running Linux in some VMs and is also running an “HA” solution in two...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM client scheduler improvements

TSM client scheduler (or some other client service) should be track if the last scheduled backup was successful and if not, there should be a way to configure the service to perform an action.E.g. the last schedule was missed, so the scheduler ser...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Data collector for Spectrum protect

I would like to know if ISA data collector is available for Spectrum protect product ( TSM ) ?
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Tape open/closes in actlog need process ids.

When a single admin command creates multiple processes, (eg maxpr=2), each of which opens/closes tapes, the session number of the admin is shown in the actlog message, but not the process number. Please add the process number to the open/close act...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Scripting : Add a "SLEEP" command

Add a unix like "SLEEP" construct that forces TSM interal scripts to wait for a number of seconds before going onto the next command.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Incorrect access permissions and ownership info when creating directories during restores

We know that there are two limitations in SP for Virtual Environment. We need to restore directories with the same access permissions and ownership information that they had during backup time. Directories that are created during a restore operati...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

request support for mssql on Linux RHEL for Spectrum Protect

ING request when MSSQL TDP will be available for Linux. Microsoft has ported MSSQL to Linux RHEL and SUSE.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect for ERP (DB2): support for non-default storage groups

TDP for ERP on DB2 databases is lacking support for non-default storage groups. If databases are backed up that contain non-default storage groups other than IBMSTOGROUP, the information is not included in the .TDI definition, and is lost at resto...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Not under consideration

TDP Exchange 2010 Issue. Statistics reports are NOT showing during backup and restore.

TDP Exchange 2010 Issue. Statistics reports are NOT showing during backup and restore. Customer needs that report and please refer this PMR for clarification. PMR 37799,227,000
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect 7.1.7 with LTO8 Drive and LTO7-M8 Media Support

We request the support of IBM TS4500 with LTO8 Drives and LTO7-M8 Media to be supported in IBM TSM 7.1.7. Today, only TSM 8 supports LTO8
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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