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add scsi addressing in INCLUDE.VMDISK parameter

Description of the problem:Our policy should be to make only an image VMbackup with TSM for VE of only the OS-disk. Making VMbackups of the data-disks with TSM for VE should not be allowed.For 91% of the VM's (+/-4200 VM's) , the OS disk with SCSI...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

TSM repository server is not supported as catalog backup target for SPP+ (enable catalog backup to repository server)

Using the SPP+ gui you can select a TSM repository server as a target for catalog backup for SPP+. I have opened a call with IBM support (TS013178083) because at 10.1.14-217 release at least of SPP+ no matter how you configure the TSM S3 repositor...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Restore by Tag

Hello, in case we want to restore a lot of server we must do it by rest api or by clic one per one each vms we want restore. It very painfull to do that. It would be great to restore using tag. If my environnement is balised with tags I should abl...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus: can only search for databases, not SQL Servers or instances.

From our DBA:"For SQL backup, how do I search by server or SQL Instance name? Currently, I can only search by a database name. When a SQL Instance has more than one databases, how do I select a SQL Instance and run the backup so that it will backu...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Query Table Columns selection not sorted

When working in Query Builder we found that the "Table Columns" selection list was sorted in order it was added to Spectrum Discover, not alphabetically sorted, this makes finding the desire column to select.
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

SPP Enhanced VMs view. Colomns sorting.

Enhanced the view of the VMs. Sorting by columns. Adding colums in the view so we can see options selected per VMS. Options per VMs in a reports also.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TCP/IP Transmission Statistics

I received a request that TDMF show in performance reporting at a Session, and optionally at a Volume level, the gross amount of data bytes to send to remote sites over TCP/IP and the accumulated number of bytes processed. Including Percent Comple...
about 4 years ago in TDMF z/OS 0 Future consideration

TS7700 Option to select any or all Cache Partitions to be Cache only

Within the TS7700T we have the option of create CP1 - CP7 (CP0 is cache only). When defining a new Cache Partition I would like to have the option of selecting if a Cache Partition is Cache w/tape or Cache Only. We would also like this option for ...
over 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

SPP 10.1.3 Exchange DAG Production Restore: User must put in name of .EDB file

If you select "Production Restore" you can restore to the original location on the original instance or a alternate location on the original instance. If you are restoring to the original location on the original instance, you do not need to enter...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM Exchange Mailbox recovery tool takes a long time open a small mailbox

In our SPP training lab we have 5 DAG's separated on 10 Servers. The DAG consists of 2 dedicated Exchange Servers Each.When trying to open a Mail Box using the tool after the SPP granular recovery completes. It can take between 15 to 20 minutes to...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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