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Storage Protect Family

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Select which management class for offload backup is used.

When making backup jobs we want to select which management class the spectrum protect for VE datamover must use for offload backups. We need the option to have different retentions requirements for long term storage on the spectrum protect server....
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

TSM-VE : better handling of VM template backup

may I suggest to not report a VM template backup as failed as it is done now when the VMENABLETEMPLATEBACKUPS is specified in the datamover option file ? It dosen't make sens to raise Error when excpected behavior has occured. If I specify the opt...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Adding a vSnap to 2 SPP appliances

The current Spectrum Protect Plus topology allows only one management (Spectrum Protect Plus VM) appliance to connect vSnaps.We should be able to add a vSnap to 2 different Spectrum Protect Plus appliances.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Db2admin member of local administrators group

Due to security policy the db2admin user should not be member of the local administrators group in Windows. The DB2 service can run as a service but the Spectrum Protect Server needs to be a member of the local admin group.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Configure TSM4VE without admin account on Spectrum protect server

Make it possible to configure the TSM4VE interface without the need for an administrative account on the Spectrum protect server. Currently TSM4VE configuration needs an administrative SP account in order to configure the product - if no admin is ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Add support for Google Cloud Storage buckets defined with Customer Managed Encryption keys

Support for Google Cloud Storage (GCS) as a cloud container pool is currently restricted to using Google Managed Keys (GMK) for encryption on the buckets on the Google side. The use of Customer Managed Keys (CMS) is a common mandatory requirement ...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

Send actlog to a remote syslog, a central loghost

There is a possibility to program userexit/fileexit to use syslog. But, the nativ support of remote syslog is needed as a standard solution. Send all entries that goes to actlog to remote syslog as a single line.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

When we increase a disk of a VMClient a Full VE backup is the result.

When we change a VMClient disk for example from 5TB to 10GB TSM is making a full VE backup.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Operations Center should display the TDP Client version as well as BA Client API version

In Spectrum Protect OC. I have TDP SQL clients showing version 8.1.7.1. That version does not exist for TDP SQL clients but it does exist for Windows BA client which means that the TDP node is showing the BA client version.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Private AWS DirectConnect domain support in SP

Our customer need to have support in Spectrum Protect for using private AWS DirectConect domain for VPCE in URL Cloud Connection for S3. SP currently support only public domain in URL like "s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com" This Spectrum Protect limitat...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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