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On install OC accept unaccepted characters in the password , installation fails later on.

On install of Operations Center one is requested to enter a password, a list of special character is listed however the installer at this point do not check if the password I enter is valid. The installation continues but hangs later on installing...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Vsnaps with several interfaces.

We have two ethernet networks one 10GB and the other 1GB. The Vmware env has the two networks and Oracle has only 1GB. If I configure the Vsnap with both networks it uses 1GB for Vmware where we have 10 and 1 GB Ethetnet network, I would like to k...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

FlashDrive - Allowing RCL to continue, rather than halt to perform repair (fail drive/replacement) before continuing.

This would benefit tremendously as a failure then requires coordination and scheduling to complete, which usually puts us outside our scheduled maintenance window with the potential of not getting another window at that time.
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

TSM for Virtual Environments should support nested VMFolder structure

When doing the VMware Backup using TSM for Virtual Environments with the "VMFOLDER" option we backup only machines residing directly in that VMFOLDER. Many cutomers are using a nested folder concept (Folders inside a Folder). TSM for VE does not r...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect FreeBSD client

I would like to request support for Spectrum Protect Client that runs natively on FreeBSD.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

TSM for VE: Virtualized Application Support

Currently the vStorage API for Data Protection creates VMware snapshots before TSM moves the data to TSM Pools. These VMware snapshots are able to create a filesystem data consistency or an application consistency if the application is VSS aware. ...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

Add considerations for worklaods with large transfer sizes to Compresstimator

Clients rely on the results of the "compresstimator" tooling to understand whether volumes may be good candidates for Realtime Compression or not. This guidance is focused on the expected compression ratio. However, the performance of largely sequ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Certificate based client validation

It would be nice, if certificate based validation could be used for clients - in order to enhance the security regarding client validation towards the TSM server.Client certificates could be issued using a local PKI - and when a client connects, t...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

SPP 3.rd recovery

Customer wants a third site for recovery. They are planning for a 3rd site recovery site to start up the workload from backup. Today we can recover SPP catalog from vsnaps. And the vsnaps can store data as archive to OSSM/S3/SP (this will act as s...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Backup Solution for Oracle 19c

We have to be able to backup Oracle 19c
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Planned for future release