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Storage Protect Family

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Enable Admin with Policy Privilege to "upd no sessionsec=trans" (currently fails with ANR2035E)

Admin user has been granted „Policy Privilege: WIN“ and can execute "unlock node" and "update node" for resetting password.BUT upd node fails with "ANR2035E UPDATE NODE: Administrator XYZ is not authorized to issue this command." when resetting fo...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Single VM Backup History

A common question is ‘why is my VM taking ages to backup'. A Gannt chart view is a really powerful tool for answering these questions. In the example below the VM backed up mostly between 19:00 and 23:00, except on Mondays when there was extra chu...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under 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

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

Ability to configure start time for SPP "inventory" jobs

Customer requires functionality to configure start time for SPP inventory jobs.Default Application Server InventoryDefault Hypervisor Inventory
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

run OC reports and put result locally, then send the files in any way other than mail

How work with operation center to send mail since most mailservers demand authorization as of today and dont really like "anonymous" sending of mail. All reports are then blocked. It could be also of interset to see if one can run OC reports and p...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

enhance for multi-session retrieve functionality

Multi-sessions is not enchanced in retrieve operations while it is for restore operations
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Linux autostart two Spectrum Protect scheduler services using init.d to autostart services for two nodes on the same server

The Spectrum Protect scheduler services doesn't auto start scheduler services post reboot for two nodenames.. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-protect/8.1.6?topic=spso-setting-client-scheduler-process-run-as-background-task-start-automatically...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Future consideration

Manage proxy node ( restore Only , backup Only ,both)

Hello, We have production and not production environment. Some nodes needs to be restored on not production environment. But a derogation is mandatory to do it. So, we configured proxy nodes . Then we can lock and unlock the nodes to be compliance...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect for VE backup report

We need IBM Spectrum Protect Operation Center to be able to generate a SP (TSM) for VE backup report on daily bases. We need this report to cover successful and failed SP (TSM) for VE backup jobs and to be able to automatically e-mail to our manag...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

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