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Storage Protect Family

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Add backup storage reporting on TSM Policy Domain level to TSM Operation Center

Enhancing TSM Operation Center with of view of backup storage per Policy Domain. This would allow backup administrators to understand better their storage growth based on their organizational structure. Furthermore it supports the usage of TSM Pol...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

Support for the Domino client beyond V7.1 EOS (12/31/2021)

The Domino client is still on version 7.1 and will get out of support on 12/31/2021. Even if there is no further development planned, there should be support available for customers using Domino.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

vSphere Web Client Integration

VMware admins and operations work in vSphere Web Client. Customer need to be able to perform the backup/recovery duties from vSphere Web Client.SPP need an extention like DP for VMware provides.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Reorg of the container files

Because we must delete 800.000.000 million orphaned chucks on two TSM servers there is coming many free storage in the container files but all the filesystems are 97% filled. If we can do a reorg then the filesystems can we schrink.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

SSL CA certificates expiration date monitoring

We would like to have possibility of monitoring expiration date of SSL signed certificates by Customer CA through IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center and have ability to perform certificate renewal if possible. This would be a huge improvement ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

vsphere CSI support in Spectrum Protect Plus

We're asking for SPP to support vsphere CSI driver in container environment
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

CDM: Allow parallel mounts/restores to proxy/remote host (Windows)

CDM should allow and handle right mounting multiple snapshots of same type/application to another host (mount proxy/remote host) at the same time (Windows). Intention is to offload multiple MSSQL Server snapshots in parallel. It seems that OS/SCSI...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

B/A Client 8.x support for Solaris (SPARC on 11.4)

Customer is requesting support of B/A client on 8.x for SPARC Solaris Servers. Currently are backing up the environment with 7.x client but it's reaching EOS in Dec/2021.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Litigation Hold Property on File Spaces.

Provide an ability to prevent expiration processing to occur for a file space when a node becomes part of a "Litigation Hold" issue. The status of enabled would over-ride expiration processing of files/folders in the file space. Microsoft Exchange...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

Add option to add notes and custom annotations to VMs to allow better visibility of backups for VM admins

Add option to add notes and custom annotations to VMs to allow better visibility of backups for VM admins You should be able to add something like the below as an example. Last Backup Completed Successfully - Yes/NoLast Backup Completed At - 01/01...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration