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Storage Protect Family

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SPP - offload (copy) or archive a specific version (not only the last one)

currently, a copy or an archive can be made via scheduler or via "planning" tab.in both cases, only the last version is copied or archived.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Please add the connected servername to the dsmadmc window title

If you have multiple TSM Administrative Commandline windows open you can easily loose track on which is which. It would be very useful if the servername one connects to is added to the title of the dsmadmc window.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Need to sort VSNAP by name or by site in SPP GUI

We have more than 60 VSNAPs and we need to sort them by name or by site
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Proof of Tape encryption

Since IBM made the decision to remove encryption from TSM4VE backups, we were forced to enable physical tape encryption for client data. There is currently no means to verify that a physical volume has been encrypted. The only method within Spectr...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Cloudtype S3 IA

Support for off-premise cloud container pool cloudtype for AWS S3 IA storage. Currently the only option is for S3.AWS offers S3 IA as an additional storage option - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-storage-update-new-lower-cost-s3-storage-opti...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Backup SLA hung

More generic job timeout option if for any reason a database/VM backup would hold the entire job
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Summary Report

Need a dashboard style report showing key performance figures for management. Current reports are PDFs containing long lists of information. There is no equivalent of the ‘General Operations' report that is produced by Operations Center for Spectr...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Unprotected VMs View

At present it is quite hard to answer the question ‘what am I not backing up'. SPP displays a summary of this on the home page (Source Protection) and the Policy Overview page. On neither of these can I just click on the number shown and see a lis...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP : User to do FLR limitations

The user defined to catalog file metadata has to have all sudo permissions and this can be a security problem. Our Customer wants the list of sudo commands necessaries to catalog file metadata and restore files in the servers.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TSM Snapdiff backup and usage of Snapdiffchangelog in Stagingdirectory

First concerns is with the stagingdirectory itself. In documentation for BA client (7.1.3) is the following statement:"The stagingdirectory option defines the location where the client can keep anydata that it generates to perform its operations. ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Not under consideration

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