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Storage Protect Family

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Need the ability to seed initial data from source vSnap to target replication vSnap

A customer has requested the ability to physically send a copy of data on external media from the source vSnap to the site that has the target replication vSnap for ingest rather than send the data over their network. They would like to do this to...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) needs to be installable in Azure

Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) server and vSnap needs to be installable in Azure.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

log on to SPP with single sign on (Use Windows session authentication)

please activate log on to SPP with single sign on(Use Windows session authentication) also a log on procedure with smart card would be convenient.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Operations Center Reports, provide a test button of custom SQL

Today when creating a custom report in Operations Center the interface automatically sends sql select queries to the server to check if the work. This could be done multiple time during the time when you edit the report, that puts a lot of load on...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 0 Not under consideration

Enable wildcards on storage pools and node names on DEDUPSTATS commands

Enable usage of wildcards and/or nodegroups on storage pools and node names on the commands: GENERATE DEDUPSTATSDELETE DEDUPSTATSQUERY DEDUPSTATS
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

add multipath support into vsnap and vadp packages

Few vsnap or vadp are currently operated on hardware, but customers with large environments who want to back up many VMs or databases and store them on SAN volumes or use the SAN transport method. They have to take care of the multipath support ma...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family 3 Future consideration

Multisession replication of a big file

At the moment the limitation of replication over the WAN with latency and package lost is the fact, that one file can only be replicated in one session. Starting with TSM 7.1 big files are represented by segments within TSM, but still only one ses...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

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.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Support for SQL on Linux

SQL DBA's do a research for using MS SQL on Linux for Big Databases
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Allow copy storage rules to select only active data AND to allow selection of from-date and to-date for copy to tape in fully hydrated tape copies.

This is useful because starting from scratch and trying to copy multiple inactive as well as the active copy of extremely large data backups (for example Epic databases) to tape for hydrated copies takes an extremely long time. The library is unav...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration