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Remove the need for reboot when installing BA and TDP clients on Windows

For the GUI to work some 2012 libraries has to be installed. This requires a reboot. IBM should change the code so that the BA and TDP clients are not dependant of additional software that requires a reboot. A reboot requires downtime and must be ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Add support in SP4VE/vSphere to restore to specific resource pool

Add functionality in Sp4VE/vSphere to restore VM's into specific resource pool in vSphere environment.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Migrating IBM Spectrum Protect Servers from One Operating System to Another

Currently there is support of migrating an IBM Spectrum Protect server from AIX to Linux x86_64 via extractdb/insertdb but not the other way around.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

The file cataloging function does not support dynamic disks

Need to have a file cataloging function that support dynamic disk.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support TSM Storage Agent to be used in virtual machines for "Serverfree" backup to shared disk

IBM GPFS is a supported file system for performing "server free" backups to shared disks (similar to LANfree backups, which are going from a TSM client system with TSM for SAN directly to a tape). At the moment, this method (Server free backup to ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 2 Not under consideration

REST api for dsmadmc

We are doing some "automated" tasks in Spectrum Protect and we are currently doing it by calling dsmadmc.exe (and args). But starting such an process for every request is rather time consuming - and heavy cpu/memory on the Windows machine (having ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Enable an Audit trail for VM and applications

Auditing – Enable a Audit trail for VM and applications. Audit trail is for jobs currently and doesn't provide info on object i.e. it says restore job started and completed but doesnt show the VMs recovered. From an auditing point of view customer...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for ROCE Tape drives in ISP

Hello, If ISP would support ROCE tape drives like TS1155/TS1160 this would deliver following advantages:- ISP could run in a VM and support Tape which is currently not possible with FC Tape drives due to Fibrechannel limitations. - ROCE attached t...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

excluded VMs in unprotected list

The Policy Overview should have a excluded VM resource in my opinion. Annoying having x number of Unprotected VMs reported every day when it is perfectly ok and should not be reported as an error.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

To pull graphical representing reports from operation center

Add a feature to pull reports in form of bar/pie, graphical representing reports from operation Centre.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

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