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    Exchange 2013 support with TSM

    Target date to support Exchange 2013 with TSM for Mail
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Planned for future release

    Deactivate Data for Sybase ASE Backups

    Would be nice if Sybase ASE API backups can bemarked inactive using the "deactivate data"command. Currently we rely on a home grown script which is not that reliable.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Inckude/exclude/wildcards/regex

    Like to use wildcards/regex and/or include/exclude statements whenn selecting:* datacentre* hostclusters* hosts* vm's* storge
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Hello, for us is need the adjustment of the plugin like in the previous versions 8.1.14, where there is the possibility of changing the GUI address on the vecenter (with the plugin).

    For us is need the adjustment of the plugin like in the previous versions 8.1.14, where there is the possibility of changing the GUI address on the vecenter (with the plugin).
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Super easy way to begin.

    It feels to me like we’re walking away from customers who are critical to our Cloud success. Development has told me they have been forced into supporting a 4-node cluster as the bare minimum for Fusion Data Catalog (FDC). I believe this is an inc...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

    A better way (single node cluster)

    about 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

    LIN_Tape device driver support for RHEL RealTime Kernel

    Customer is evaluating IBM Spectrum Protect and would like to have the ability to install/configure the IBM LIN_Tape-3.0.46-1.src.rpm (downloaded from IBM Fix Central) on the Real-time RHEL7.5 kernel. The customer is not able to successfully compi...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Allow globally to exclude a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job

    Allow globally to exclude a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job, like the function to exclude complete VMs via the Policy Options or by using a specific VM tag.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    one way password implementation on tsm server

    During a security audit we found some probleme with the implementation of password allgorithm in TSM. It is recommended to immplement a one way password encryption algorithm, at least for the TSM server accounts (Admins, server to server, lan free...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Add preview support to restore

    Ability to run a restore in preview mode that outputs what would be restored if the restore was to be run with the given parameters. Ability to restore only those affected files into another location
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

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