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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

Bug in Spectrum Protect - LDAP timout issues stop the SP server starting

When starting the Spectrum Protect/TSM server it goes through the startup procedures.Part of this startup checks the LDAP connections.If the LDAP connection times out, then the SP server fails to start.The RFE is that if the LDAP fails then the SP...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Move data from tapes to container storage pools

There should be a way for people who want to abandon tapes to move their existing data to disk, in most recent format - container storage pools. As there is feature introduced with 7.1.6 to convert file based legacy storage pools to new container ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Minimal Support for Oracle Linux and DP4Oracle

We have been requested to protect Oracle Databases running onOS: Oracle linux Server 7.8DB Server: Oracle Database 19c Enterprise Edition Release 19.0.0.0.0 opened a case in look for minimal support but is not available.Oracle says "Oracle Linux i...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Delivered

Multiple vcenter's configured in TSM Data Protection for VMWare

We use TSM VMWare Data protection for backing up our vms regularly. We are currently have to allocate additional servers in order to point to each vcenter. Enabling the software to be configured for multiple vcenters would be helpful.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

Allow for parallel-stream restores, using DP for SAP HANA

In http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSZHVN_7.1.3/erp.hana/c_dperp_saphana_planperf.html, the manual states that parallel-session BACKUP and RESTORE is possible in DP for SAP HANA 7.1.3. That is not the case, as discovered in named PMR. B...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 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

Spectrum Protect Server Startup on Linux SystemD unit file

Would like a SystemD unit file for the SP server startup. Current process uses SystemV init script which runs from a user slice which inherently do not have access to all system resources. Running the application from a SystemD unit file would use...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Support for SP container pool storage tiering in SPP

For customers performing storage tiering between directory and cloud container pools within SP, they would like to SPP to be aware and support this functionality. For now data that has been tiered affect the primary source pool and prevent it from...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

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