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Storage Protect Family

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Support of Sharedmemory feature for TSM (ISP) DB Backup on Windows Platforms

Dear Dev. team,Please incorporate support of sharedmemory feature for TSM DB backup on Windows Platforms.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Make it possible to bypass tsm admin config on TSM4VE Web Interface

It should be possible to "bypass" the TSM Server credentials configuation in the TSM4VE Web interface.Once the configuration has been "bypassed", TSM4VE should never ask for it again.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

gskcrypt64-8.0.55 rpm packages require invalid binary files /bin/ln and /bin/sh

For a long time RHEL has provided both /bin/X and /usr/bin/X even though the packages only install /usr/bin/X This is true for RHEL7, RHEL8 and RHEL9 The gskcrypt64 package should have been changed a long time ago to require /usr/bin/X components ...

SPP - Enable 'disable log capability' to SQL Ad Hoc Backup

In an SQL Always-On (clustered) DB restore, we need the ability to disable log backups using the SQL Ad-Hoc backup function.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support multiple Operation Centers

We would like to use multiple OC´s to support remote monitoring in parallell with local OC. This is not possible today, but needed for our remote monitoring process. Maybe the local OC could feed some "cloud"-service (like CMC for HMC and power sy...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect - stgrule subrule, allow groups to be specified and not just clients

stgrule subrule - allow groups and/or wildcards to be used for subrules. For example, at the moment I have 500 clients, some I want to tierbystate and some tierbyage. To keep my setup simple, I have one staging pool which tiers to one cloud pool. ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

In clustered (HA) environments, Spectrum Protect should support installing interim fixes without downtime

We are using Spectrum Product for Data Retention in a document centric application step, that serves access to contract statements over the web in an always on environment. Maintenance (major version or scheduled FP upgrade) is expected to be deli...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SP server to support IBM S3 cloud side retention policies, WORM features, object locking

When using Cloud Storage Pool in a Spectrum Protect Server , it should support all the features that can be set at the S3 level ( especially when the S3 cloud is IBM !! ) like Cloud side retention policies, WORM features, object locking.For retent...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

Customer needs more detail on client activity to be able to manage backups effectively

A customer needs more information to be able to effectively manage client backups. If a client experiences an exception, it is important to be able to look at its historical success and failure and workload. Specifically, in the details section fo...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Add information to Operations Center to make client management better.

A customer needs more information in the operations center to be able to effectively manage client backups, particularly exceptions in the data protection services. For example, the current columns that can be selected include the at-risk status a...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration