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Storage Protect Family

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Add new command to administrative CLI to pause a script

I suggest you add a command named "wait", the purpose of which would be to pause a script in TSM CLI. For example doing "wait 10" would pause a script for 10 seconds.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Schedule Force Base Resources (full backup)

Possibilities to Schedule full backups in a SLA. Like, over a month VM makes a full backup randomly every night spread over the time you set.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Client Deploy should be able to update TDP clients, or at least skip clients which should not be upgraded w/o TDP updates.

The current client deploy is not TDP aware. It is up to us to track which of the 8000 clients belong on the same host, and which ones are TDP. In some cases, seeing the policy domain and node name is enough to figure it out, but not always. Some T...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

Replicate NDMP TOC

NDMP TOC still has to be backed up into a file class, and cannot be replicated. This is unacceptable for the "push everything in the cloud" mentality.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Server database online REORG cancelling running process & sessions

During online IBM Spectrum Protect Server database REORG current running process/sessions are cancelling. I don't have free window to run reorg alone. Below are the tables creating problem 11/10/2017 11:58:26 AM ANR1880W Server transaction was can...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Please implement a "relabel_empty" feature similar to relabel_scratch, VTLs need it

Please implement a "relabel_empty" feature similar to relabel_scratch, VTLs need it. With the "relabel_empty" feature cartridges will be relabeled when they are assigned the status of EMPTY again after being freed up. The write from begin of tape,...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Protect Stgpool target to cloud container

We need protect stgpool to work with cloud containers as a target pool.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

vRealize Automation (vRA) / vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) plugin with SPP

Ability to interface SPP with VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) and vRealize Orchestrator (vRO)
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

IBM Backup, Recovery and Media Services (BRMS) for i and Tivoli Storage Manager for IBM i

I've a client in Moçambique that would like to back an Exictos-Promosoft Financial Suite on an IBM iSeries box (aka AS400's) using TSM V7.1 or later. Could you let me know if this is possible and how the client can do this. The client also has oth...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Move filespace to another node

It would be helpful to be able to change the retention of a VM after it has been deleted, without having to restore, rebind, then re-delete. Ideally, we would be able to add a target node name to RENAME FILESPACE, or a new command for MOVE FILESPA...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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