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    TSM V6 database Reorg Status

    The requirement is to be able to report the status and progress of database Reorg from within TSM rather than through DB2 (e.g. query database f=d - is it finished and if not how much more to run). Also it would be good to be able to schedule reor...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    Improvements to Client Update targeting in Operations Center

    The new automatic client updates built into Spectrum Protect Operations Center (OC) 8.1.3 does not currently support targeting of supported versions, nor filtering by OS version in order to do so manually. There are two improvements I would like t...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    SI needs to include the SRC for any DS8k event it receives

    SI needs to include the SRC for any DS8k event it receives.
    about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Domain statement honoured by archive process

    Many customers need to do monthly/yearly Full backups. An archive is not an option since all filespaces to be included in the archive must be manually added. Systemstate info is not included in an archive and the DOMAIN statement is not honoured b...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    SP4VE Vmware: Duplicate UUIDs support for UI / File level recovery

    SP4VE Vmware: Duplicate UUIDs support for UI / File level recovery for linux mountproxies
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Allow prioritisation of policies

    Allow prioritization of the execution of policies based on SLA. Each SLA will have a priority number associated with it (0=no priority/undefined, 1=highest...99=lowest). When defined the policy number would would mean that when SLAs are running co...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Allow TSM client logs to be brought back to server for analysis when server staff do not have access to client file system

    Allow TSM staff to bring back and use the TSM client logs to determine issues and error conditions at the time of backup failures
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    TSM Server "Define Clientaction" Command Issue

    System: TSM Server all versions Actor: Define Clientaction Command need to be trimmed with "REQUIRED" parameters. Description: TSM Server, "define clientaction" command is not having any required paramters right now. If we run "define clientaction...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect on LinuxOne with RHEL 8.x

    LinuxOne is proposing for Oracle database consolidation, Spectrum Protect is a key component to provide data backup and recovery. The compatibility of Spectrum Protect on LinuxOne with RHEL 8.x is essential for the proposal.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Planned for future release

    TSM for VE: Enhance Scheduling with vCenter Tags

    In vCenter is is possible to set "Tags" or "Custom Attributes" to a VM. E.g. Productive, Preproductive, Test. It would be great if these Tags can be used within a Schedule of a TSM for VE Backup.
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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