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Storage Protect Family

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Include and Exclude files and disks

A customer would like to have an option where they can include and exclude file and disks from backup. It should be easily available via GUI.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

SP Operation Center backup success rate improvement

On the Operation Center, backup success rate is calculated by every node that is registered to the TSM Servers. However, this is not correct approach on every customer environment.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

support for LTO8 drives

support for LTO8 tape drives
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

DP for Exchange GUI behaviour

We would like to have a few improvements in the DP for Exchange GUI.How the GUI bahaves during restore operations.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Delivered

Implement full LDAPS

We have a requirement from a client to implement all IBM tooling along with Spectrum Protect (8.1.2) via LDAPS. We have successfully proved the current form of integration with StartTLS but the client in question is a bank and has concerns around ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

SP4VE File Level REcovery AD Trusted relationship environment

Today when implementing File Level Recovery(FLR) there is requirement of having the Windows Mount Proxy in the same Active Directory as the target virtual machines (the one to be recovered). What we would like to have is the ability to leverage AD...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

Improve Logical Block Protection performance by using faster CRC implementation

The Logical Block Protection (LBP) feature in Spectrum Protect (TSM) is currently limiting performance when used with current generation tape drives. In production we see around 360 MB/s without LBP enabled, degrading to around 200 MB/s with LBP e...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Require Generic TSM Client Login Failure Messages

TSM Backup/Archive Admin Client and Client display failures that are too explicit, and the requirement is that it is generic, in order to meet security requirements:.For this TSM issue, one message overlaps, that for the wrong password. This shoul...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

Export from Directory Containers

Export and Import is a vital function in TSM. Both for transfer node data between TSM servers and for Off-site and longterm storage of backup data. Directory-container pools are the latest and in many ways the best way to store local backup data i...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

ZFS Support for Spectrum Protect Server on Linux x86_64

Having support for ZFS filesystem on Linux x86_64 is a must. ZFS filesystem is a strong and reliable filesystem that exists for years in Solaris world.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

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