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Storage Protect Family

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    TIVsm-WEBGUI REST API documentation

    Having installed and configured TIVsm-WEBGUI package the REST API is visable an useable. But no documentation exists.
    about 6 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 7 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 7 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 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Delivered

    Increase the command history buffer in dsmadmc to WAY more than 20.

    The command history feature (up arrow) in the dsmadmc and dsmc command line interfaces has been limited to 20 previous commands for over 25 years. Assuming that this was some sort of memory limitation in the distant past, can you please increase t...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

    Provide detailed sizing guidelines for DB sizing with 7.1.3 deduplication

    Current product documentation includes TSM DB sizing guidelines without deduplication, and there are instructions for old TSM dedupe DB impact at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21596944. The impact of deduplication is much lower ...
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

    TSM OC should have a job control.

    TSM Operation Center needs a panel to control the backup-restores. I am going to put some examples. If a customer is using Control-M or TWS, TSM doesn't know if the backup is good or fail. Like TSM is a Backup/Restore tool. It is also necesary thi...
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

    Naming for the VMWare snapshot generated by TSM4VE

    The naming of the VMware snapshots generated by TSM4VE during backup activity should be customizable. You can see if a snapshot is generated by TSM4VE because the properties of a TSM4VE generated snapshot includes a "TSMBackup" information,but a t...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

    Backup HyperV VMs more backup Types & Options

    more backup types & options for hyperV VMs not only full backup and restore
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Delivered

    Support for the TSM 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3 Linux x86/x86_64 Backup-Archive client on Linux distribution Ubuntu 12 ?

    Support for the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3 Linux x86/x86_64 Backup-Archive client on Linux distribution Ubuntu 12. Today, IBM supports only Ubuntu 10 and 11.http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21417165#6.3%20DI...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

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