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Storage Protect Family

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TSM is not supproted on p7 except in p6 compatibility mode

TSM on p7 hardware requires that you run the LPAR in p6 compatibility mode. This is a Java/DB2 limitation during the install or upgrade. This limitation should be fixed as it nullifies the reason for migrating to better/faster hardware. http://www...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Mailbox Restore Browser functionality for Exchange 2016

I would like the Mailbox Restore Browser functionality added for Exchange 2016
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

Command to release a PENDING volume to SCRATCH

When a tape library has used all its scratch volumes, the admin needs to make some tapes available to keep operations running. If there are no tapes that can be checked in, a possibility is to free up some already empty volumes in PENDING state. T...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to use the "dedup_device" with TSM for ERP (DB2) Product

Customer backup its DB2 database with Sp. Protect (ex TSM) ; backup storage is ProtecTIER (IBM Open deduplication solution). In order to boost both backup / restaure performances and deduplication ratio the 'dedup_device' option has been be set up...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

Full Active Directory Intergration

Full Active Directory Integration as a single signon solution
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Ability to specify Node replication parameters on each node

To increase security in the node replication feature, we would like to have the option to specify the target TSM server IP, Port, Nodename and Nodepassword on individual nodes - instead of global settings, which requires server-to-server communica...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TVE Duplicate Backup Task

If a backup task is running and new one task is started on the same object using the GUI, it will cause the first backup to fail. The TVE system should indicate that a backup on the object is currently executing and skip or queue the second backup...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Allow snapdiff backups of NetApp CIFS volumes containing widelinks

TSM uses NetUseEnum() to determine if a NetApp CIFS share is connected before attempting a snapdiff backup. When run on a NetApp CIFS volume with widelinks, it results in the following error: ANS2831E: Incremental by snapshot difference cannot be ...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TSM Terabyte Front End Capacity Calculator - needs to be reworked for VE

Please see mentioned PMR. Calculation of front end capacity for TSM for Virtual Environments is wrong, in my opinion. The results differ wildly depending on if the customer uses thin or thick disks and if there happen to be snapshots, for example....
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Support for secure NDMP

NAS filer (i.e.NetApp) are supporting secure NDMP.This ensures secure communication between the NDMP server and the backup application.https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMLP2348067/html/GUID-E3157FCA-CAE6-4614-A549-557025A2EC46.html Spectrum Pro...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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