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Storage Protect Family

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Add Support Hyper-V Fail-over cluster with Storage Spaces Direct running on Windows Server 2022 Datacente

Lots of our Microsoft customers use this combo.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Server command to change/migrate node config from one TSM instance/server to another

When running a TSM environment with multiple servers and TSM instances on each server - and not always having direct access on all clients - it will be useful if a TSM administrator could issue a server command to tell a client to change its confi...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

LISTING/PREVIEW of ALL tapes required for a RETRIEVE or a RESTORE

Retrieve and Restore function should have preview option to list the volumes which will be required for the Restore or Retrieve;
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

TDP for ERP - Support for Oracle 12c

TDP for ERP is not supported for Oracle 12c.Oracle 12c was certified for SAP on March 2015.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Not under consideration

Recommision node / reverting decommission node command

Implementing a recommission node command to stop the decommission node process without restoring database.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Enable Aspera for Spectrum Protect on Power Linux server

The customer has ISP on Power AIX server and want to enhance BCP between two sites with low bandwidth.I understand that Linux on IA server is supported.But this customer want to get end to end support from IBM.And we also want to exclude competito...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

snapdiff AIX

Please re-add snapdiff functionality to the AIX dsmc. This exists in 7.1 but was dropped in 8.1.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Support for CSVFS over CIFS/SMB

As a first step towards RFE 105269 (Spectrum Protect Support for CSVFS) backup/restore of CSVFS file system via SMB/CIFS should be officially supported. Right now, it seems to work, but is neither tested nor supported, according to IBM. A "query f...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Support for CSVFS

We are using spectrum protect backup software to backup windows environments, one of the requirement from business side to backup CSVFS file system, which is not supported yet.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Load Balance of TSM for VE Datamovers

When you have 1000's of Virtual Machines and a daily changes in your environment, it get's really hard to get a good a easy overview which Datamover that has less load. It should be good if the datamovers could talk to each other and spread the wo...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration