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Storage Protect Family

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Add TSM4VE control files to TSM DB

Currently a diskpool is required to hold control files for TSM4VE backups. This data would be much easier to manage if it were located directly in the TSM DB
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Mailbox restore wizard

The procedure of restoring item level requires me to install TDP for Exchange on one of the DAG nodes and start the mailbox restore wizard. Unfortunately you HAVE to install TDP for Exchange on the DAG node.In our days customers wants to remove an...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

Rebinding Archives between management classes

We have two managment classes for archiving data; one mgmt class expires archives after twelve months (temp mgmt class) and the other does not expire archives( never expires). We have a requirement to set some of the archives under temporary mgmt ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Individual File Restore Security (SSH)

Individual File Restore under Linux currently requires a passwordless ssh access from any client which wants to use individual file restoreto a Windows machine as user Administrator. This rises multiple implications: Security: You can log in to th...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

New OS & Oracle version support for SPP

VODAFONE TELCO need an Backup SW for those versions:It could be possible to support (three different options needed): 1) RedHat 6.42) RedHat 5.9 (if possible with Python 2.4)3) Oracle 10g They like SPP as Backup SW, but they NEED to support those ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Server in Oracle Cloud

Spectrum Protect Linux Server in Oracle Cloud
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TDP VMware INSTANT VM Rostore of ESX with EMC Multipathing

The current setup of the TDP Vmware IBM Spectrum Protect V 8.1.2.0 ,Instant restore works for iscsi goes through the NMP, but the original datastore is using EMC powerpath, which is no-native multipathing, We need the enhancement for the IBM Spect...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Include NAS Backups statistics in the data collection of Monitoring and Reporting.

Currently, the results from NAS Backups (NDMP) stored in the summary table is not collected in the WAREHOUS database. As such, it's also not possible to produce any custom reports on NAS Backups. Collecting the rows from the summary table where ac...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

Backup and Restore Storage Pool by using TSM Storage Agent

Currently Backup and Restore storage pool can only be done by TSM Server. Meanwhile there are many TSM Storage Agents deployed on the environment which are idle during non backup window. Backup data is always getting bigger, and increasing the TSM...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 2 Not under consideration

VSS application protection option to TSMVE GUI

Customers of ours find it very complicated to protect VM's with VSS application protection-Almost everything has been integrated into the VE GUI, but to backup SQL/Exchange VM, you have to go to the OPT file and add INCLUDE.VMTSMVSS option, and in...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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