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Storage Protect Family

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The replication vSnap needs to be on a VPN

The issue is not the existence of that replication partner, the issue is the NAT. The following happens: 1. vSnap1 connects to vSnap-VADP host name and requests the IP interfaces to connect to 2. vsnap-vadp check in the list of its network interfa...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

tape overwrite function for copy-container storage pools

Please implement a way to overwrite a tape in a container-copy storage pool. In sequential pools you could just use the "move data" command for this and move the data from one tape to another without losing temporary copy coverage or messing with ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SCDM support for KVM

Many customers are using KVM hypervisor in their Oracle environments because of Oracle licensing rules. Thus, having SCDM supporting KVM virtualized servers will open new opportunities.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

export/import backupset volhist and ToC pool

If replication is used to migrate data from one SP server to another SP server, information about backupsets (and exports) in volhist is not sent over to the new server.make export server able to export server filedata=backupsetand export server f...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Operation Center Anomaly Reporting Improvement

Right the anomaly reporting of OC is very basic and not very usefull. There is no good way to export it and create a daily list of client nodes with anomalies and what type of anomalies are those. We would like to be able: Generate a daily spreads...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Allow Target Server to be specified on Replicate Node

Allow the the target replication server to be specified on the replicate node command. In addition, document the DOMAIN option on replicate node in online and admin quide.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

i5/OS (AS/400) Client API Service extension

Official announcement has been made in Developerworks Wiki that TSM 6.2 API for i5/OS will go out if support the 30th of April 2015.(see https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/IBM%20Backup,%20Recovery%20and%20Media%...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Migration process hang waiting volumes in use

Storagepools with file type devclass are used on a large scale in this client. the problem occurs when the migration process starts and some session has a mounted .bfs file (backup or restore). The migration process remains stuck until the session...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Prevent Web B/A client file level restore port conflict with WAS ports

Customer identified during the Spectrum Protect web client implementation that its ports (9081) conflicts directly with WAS (Websphere Application Server) ports that's is being in use by their banking online production applications. Thus this beha...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Support for GFS2 file systems

Support for GFS2 file systems. Customer tested the backup and restore of GFS2 FileSystems and the attributes are not restored. Then, the current solution is not valid
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

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