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Storage Protect Family

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Option to perform manual full backup of VMs

We need an option to override the incremental forever and force a (new) full backup of VMs.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Server and Storage agent support for SLES 12 Power (LE)

Currently the only officially supported Protect Server and Storage Agent on Power Linux Little Endian is RedHat. What about the customers with SLES 12 LE ?

Server audit log for restore operations

In some scenarios it might be desirable, that restore operations for specific nodes can be logged - so that it later on is possible to do a traceback to identify a given account, that performed a restore of one or more objects on a client. The log...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Delivered

SPP CA certificate update using CLI

Providence Healthcare is requesting the the CA Certificate can be updated via the CLI on the system.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

TSM for VE: Instant Restore for full VM Restore

Currently TSM for VE only supports near instant restore for singe disks/volumes/file systems. For a restore of a whole virtual machine, no instant restore is possible. One possibility to provide this functionality would be following: 1. Make the T...

Spectrum Protect Disk Migration single thread

In a disk storage pool with only 1 node the migration process from Disk to tape is single threaded. The only way today around this is to use File device classes. We would prefer not to use File devices classes as these add other overheads. There i...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Delivered

Minimal Support for Oracle Linux and DP4Oracle

We have been requested to protect Oracle Databases running onOS: Oracle linux Server 7.8DB Server: Oracle Database 19c Enterprise Edition Release 19.0.0.0.0 opened a case in look for minimal support but is not available.Oracle says "Oracle Linux i...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Delivered

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments: Multiple VMware webclient plug-in registrations in one VCenter server

Customer would like to have the possibility of multiple TSM4VE plug-in registrations on the same vCenter server. In case customers are using more than one Spectrum Protect TDP configurations within one VSphere environment, multiple DP GUI connecti...

Bug in Spectrum Protect - LDAP timout issues stop the SP server starting

When starting the Spectrum Protect/TSM server it goes through the startup procedures.Part of this startup checks the LDAP connections.If the LDAP connection times out, then the SP server fails to start.The RFE is that if the LDAP fails then the SP...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

TSM V6: Show Us the Tables, Please

Please expose to the SELECT command in TSM V6 (and later, if any) all of the internal tables that TSM uses, with exceptions for things like passwords and other sensitive information.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Delivered