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File Level Restore Enhancements

Requests from customer to improve the File Level Restore recovery capability in SPP and add the following: 1) Add an include list as well as an exclude list under VM options > select options 2) Collect data for and add a date modified field so ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUI configuration mode checkbox should be UNCHECKED by default.

The Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUI configuration mode checkbox should remain unchecked as a default setting for normal use.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

Spectrum protect with java version 11

The latest version of the Java that is supported with the SP for VE and the server is version 8 which means that Java version 11 is not supported as it hasn't been tested. But our customer is planning to remove Java 8 on all the servers across the...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 12 Planned for future release

TS7770 - Copy of TCT objects written by DS8910 on a TS7770 bucket to physical tape

BrB - Banco de Brasilia, is requesting our support to have objects stored on TS77700 through DS8910 TCT function been moved physical tape.
over 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 0 Planned for future release

IBM SPP: Allow VADP/VSNAP deployment with SSH keys instead of username/password

Hello, VADP and VSNAP Deployment require that you enter a OS username and password for ssh communication. Username and password authentication is not very secure therefore any sane/larger customer will only allow ssh-keys for authentication. Pleas...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Incremental Hyper-V Backup Like TDP for VE (VMware)

Please add the ability to perform incremental backups for Hyper-V using either the standard TSM BA Client or TSM for VE in a similar way as is provided for VMware backups.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Planned for future release

Export performance data to any support case

The Export Performance Data action in Storage Insights has 2 options for where the data goes. Upload to a support case Download to the local system If the user chooses Upload, Storage Insights restricts the upload specifically to a case for that s...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Support for IP based Static Routing (in connection with iSCSI volume/host mappings)

At the definition of the iSCSI interface/addresse in the SVC - it is currently at an Eth port only possible to define ONE Standard Gateway. But if the IP network cannot be reached over this one Standard Gateway for any reason, then there must be a...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Replication Job shows as "Error" if no data is there to process

When using the replication of vSnap backup storage data and no "new" backup data is available in the source vSnap, SPP identifies the replication job as "Error" which is not true.In fact, just no new data is available in the source vSnap server. S...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Waiting for Winodws 2019 Server support for Spectrum protect server and BA client

We need Windows server 2019 server support for the Spectrum protect for the TSM server installation and BA client as well
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

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