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Storage Protect Family

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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

Spectrum Protect Plus - offloading data

The data offload/data copy options currently available in Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.7 do not offer enough flexibility in terms of what data types can be sent to what offload destination (cloud or repository server).If you also want to send SPP da...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP filesystem backup support

SPP Physical server backup server support is required mainly for file server
about 3 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

Implement server certificate information in OC

Implement server certificate information in operations centre to prevent from the need to connect to system and using difficult gsk commands.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

add ability to create certificate signing request to SP+ interface

The SP+ admin UI allows us to provide a real (non self signed ) certificate but does not provide a way to create a certificate signing request which is necessary to obtain a real certificate. We need a supported way to create CSRs
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP multi-domain support

Please provide multi-domain authentication to SPP.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Implement console mode installation to support clean server installations

Remove the need for using a "GUI" server for Spectrum Protect Server. When running the SP on a true server instance, then only allowing GUI install is limiting our environment and also makes installation more complicated due to VM/OS itself but a...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect (TSM) "What's New" Operations Center Feed

Spectrum Protect customers often are unaware when new versions of the solution are released and what relevant new features are added. This often causes issues as the applications and software they are protecting continues to update and requires sp...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Idle session timeout for Spectrum Protec Plus Web UI

It should be possible to automatically cancel inactive Web UI sessions according to your own settings. As it is now, inactive sessions are kept active forever. This is a security risk.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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