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Storage Protect Family

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enhanced charging to support compressed/uncompress volume

Today:- It is possible to measure data on different levels on the TSM Server- SELECT * FROM FILESPACES Can be used to see the allocated and used space on filesystems on the clients But does not give correct results on databases, as both CAPACITY a...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Delivered

Option to start DSMSERV in "standalone" or "maintenance" mode

I would like to be able to start DSMSERV with an option that disables reclamation, administrative schedules, expiration and client sessions. I know it it possible to disable reclamation, expiration and administrative schedules by editing the dsmse...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

TSM FOR VE ( for vmware) option to exclude drives when performing Virtual Machine backups

Within tsm for VE , would need an option to exclude specific disks ( vmware esx vmdk ) .By exclude I mean ( do not backup the data in those containers ) but backup the metadata , so that they would be recreated during VM restore ( but empty )
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 7 Delivered

Immutable feature on Object storage

We would like to keep the backup data that we copied on cloud as immutable.This means that the data will remain indelible for the period we set.Thus, we can protect our data from attacks such as hackers who intentionally want to delete them.Spectr...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Delivered

Provide AWS image for SPP server

It is currently not possible to deploy the SPP server in AWS. The SPP vSnap can be deployed in AWS, but this require an on-prem SPP server (or a SPP server deployed in VMware Cloud on AWS). An AWS specific SPP AMI image is required.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Spectrum Protect support for Google Object Storage

Spectrum Protect support for Google Object Storage as container storage pool.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

TIVsm-WEBGUI REST API documentation

Having installed and configured TIVsm-WEBGUI package the REST API is visable an useable. But no documentation exists.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

ISP4VE- Additional Tagging documentation for powershell

In the user´s guide there is no example or explanation how to set tags via powershell. It´s mentioned that for example the quiescing paramter can be set manual via powershell but not how...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

SP+ Syslog alerting

Please add an ability to have events sent via syslog messages to external receivers. There should be an ability to include select informational events for login/logout security auditing as well as backup and restore events.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Delivered

Allow more flexible retention polices

Currently the SLA Policies only allow retnetion period in days. The customer would like to set retention period in weeks, months, years or indefinitely.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Delivered

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