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Storage Protect Family

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Support adding space by extending existing luns to vSnap server

vSnap server should be able to have it storage luns extended. Typically, we would make 4 luns of 4 Tb each available to a vSnap server. When it needs to be extended, we just increase the existing luns by 1 or 2 Tb each.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Report FE capacity for DB2 databases in OC

We want to see the "Capacity Used" values for DB2 databases in the "License Estimation" of the Spectrum Protect Operation Center.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

NDMP - NAS backups - Encrypted communications with TLS 1.2/3

Required to secure communications in line with all other client server operations
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Enhance Spectrum Protect CMS feature

Starting 8.1.13 baclient / OC version, CMS is integrated with the baclient code. Right now, only part of the relevant baclient logs for investigations are being reported. It could be very helpful for “remote” diagnostics that the CMS is able to gr...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Option to disable security notifications

We need an option to disable "security notifications" entirely.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

TSM_Daily_Operations_Report not showing daily logical backup size

TSM_Daily_Operations_Report not showing daily logical backup size on TSM Operation Report. on page nameData Protection CLIENT BACKUPS WITH THE MOST DATA Over the past 24 hSize0.0 B
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Copy Data Manager Support for Oracle ACFS on AIX and Linux

Oracle's new filesystem implentation is called ACFS, taking over ASM. CDM supports virtual ACFS on Windows. Need to have support for physical filesystems on AIX and Linux supporting ACFS
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

TSM4VE exclude hdisks from snapshot

On busy systems, snapshotting and consolidating disks with high change rate result in using considerable ressources and may create unwanted downtimes.Excluding the disks from backup still results in snapshots beeing taken. The request is to have t...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

SPF-I-3280 .. regarding this idea .. can you please explain how this function is working

There is a customer requirement to generate a report from event table .. to have a daily overview from client backup .. to have start time, endtime, and status from each backup. Additionally the customer need the output from the client, which Mgmt...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Under review

allow SPP to intelligent selection for VADP transport mode

testing has shown that if using a virtual VADP proxy, the HotAdd transport is good for large amounts of data transfer, but NBD is better for smaller data transfers since there is a small amount of time spent establishing HotAdd. It would be good t...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration