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Storage Protect Family

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TSM4VE - requirement of Windows proxy for file-level restore in Linux environments

Setting up a TSM4VE file-level restore for Linux in a Linux only environment requires a Windows based TSM4VE proxy. Customer requested support for a Linux only based TSM4VE proxy instead.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

DECOM / DEACTIVATE by future date

Requesting DECOMM VM, DECOMM NODE and/or DEACTIVATE commands be enhanced to allow specifying a future date. This could be parsed during EXPIRE, or possibly some other operation that gives more notice. Alternatively, if DEACTIVATE could be modified...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Add ability to retain active data in a normal storage pool

I propose that an additional paramater MIGACTIVEDATA is added as a storage pool parameter.      This parameter could be used to stop the migraion of active data from the initial staging pool and will eliminate the need for an additi...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Usability and Performance enhancements needed for very large filespace replication

There are 3 major problems currently with replication of very large filespaces.1) The initial replication and ongoing replication of data for nodes with very large filespaces (100 million+ objects) and with a large amount of data (10+TB) works ver...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TDP for SQL Integration with CDC for SQL

How to make it possible to create a custom script in IBM Spectrum Protect SQLServer to run every 8 hours and perform backup and erase logs only from the last 4 hours, keeping 4 hours of logs on the SQLServer disk. We have a use case where two IBM ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

dsmj client for zLinux (S390)

On zLinux/s390 there is no GUI client since upgrade to Spectrum Protect server version 8.1.2+ (7.1.8).WEB client is not working any more and dsmj client is missing on zLinux OS. We need GUI on zLinux platfrom (WEB cleint or dsmj cleint)
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

2 TB Backup Limit in TSM for VE

Error: ANS2236I message disks that exceed the 2 TB maximum size limit.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

SP4VE File recovery : reports user whom initiated file restore

We are using SP4VE in a full service mode so user can do restore on its own through the many interfaces available. However, security policies enforce us to track who's doing what. Thus, we need to have the information on who is requesting/initiati...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Automatic Failover Failback with Node Replication

Today Node Replication is more or less only constrained to DR. However after meeting with Greg Tavis and other developers it's clear that this feature is changing in the future to be able to backup and recover from both the source and the target s...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

OpenStack back-up with Spectrum Protect

Customer VW (Volkswagen) Financial Services (VWFS) is in charge for managing the cloud solution for the entire VW corporation, which is based on OpenStack.VWFS is a loyal IBM Spectrum Protect customer. VWFS approached us with the request for a bac...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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