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Storage Protect Family

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Tivoli Monitoring for TSM

We have ITM6 monitoring agent for TSM installed on TSM server to test TSM monitoring scenario but agent have not much features as per the customer requirements, and we need help to get those features, view with this agent. I had open PMR 13425, L6...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Eliminate the possibility of unintentionally deleting data (SYS4039)

Eliminate the possibility of unintentionally deleting data
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Not under consideration

TSM Scheduler Update (SYS4331)

The Best Practice for TSM server environments is to include Full backups on a periodic basis. With the efficiency of the incremental Forever strategy of TSM, there comes a side effect that can become a road block to achieving a timely RTO. This is...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

To enable SSL to transitional for nodes automatically without human intervention

We are often facing backup failure due to SSL connection failure which needs to be updated manually from SP servers As we have only client support, we are fully dependent on SP Server team, due to that process, backup is impacting we need a soluti...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

[Copy] Lack of integration with IBM Spectrum Protect

Lack of an integration between IBM Spectrum Protect (SP) and IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management (CDM) using Pure Storage. Lack of this functionality is a major road block to deploy/adoption a supported combination of Pure, CDM and SP solution.
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

Search option in TsmVmwareUI

When dealing with large number of VMs, finding a VM for restore/mount operation in the Datacenter list is extremely difficult and equal to finding a needle in a haystack. Search option would improve this interface significantly.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Provide support to Lustre filesystem

The new FSX on Lustre filesystem available in AWS is being utilized to store data which requires ACL access. It would be VERY helpful if Luster was supported by Spectrum Protect so that the backups of the filesystem would retain these permissions.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Add the ability to configure the Time span of Recent Tasks

At the TSM Ve Web GUI, add the ability to configure the Time span of "Recent Tasks"
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Exlusion of Filesystem on Spectrum protect client application with specific to filesystem type like exclude.fs.jfs

Spectrum Protect client is the product. Currently Spectrum protect client software manages backup and restore of files/directories of large Enterprise servers. Spectrum Protect (SP) client has feature to exclude only NAS filesystem with the comman...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

schedule name in summary table for a lanfree scheduled session

Please refer to PMR 20505,L6Q,000
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 0 Not under consideration

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