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Storage Protect Family

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Require HTTPS for Spectrum Protect Web Client

Currently only HTTP works when using the Backup-Archive Web Client. US Bancorp requires this communication to be transmitted over HTTPS due to Federal audit requirements. We know that the data is not sent in clear text, but the auditors don't, so ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 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...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Future consideration

TSM for VE 'Monthlies' 'Yearlies'

Multiple different schedules and retentions are not supported when using the TSM for VE vsphere plugin or web client (or generally). This means a customer must create separate servers in order to keep a 'monthly' set of data for a year, otherwise ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Integrate 'Relabel Scratch' command with Fujitsu Eternus vJuke virtual libraries

Fujitsu Eternus VTLs are well known in several customer's ISP environments. Main difference to other VTLs is the ability to stack logical volumes on physical tapes in the backend.Data written to the VTL is stored in a tape volume cache (TVC) on vi...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Rentention Sets for SAP/ERP

Spectrum Protect retention sets are utilized to achieve longer data retention without the need to make further interactions with the host. This capability is available for file and 'VE' data. We need this to be extended for other use cases, and in...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Make the dashboard more focused on showing information and enabling actions at a per VM and application level

The product needs to be a lot more VM and application centric from a management perspective. What end users would like is backup information per VM and application in the dashboard, a list of VMs and applications showing when each VM and applicati...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

customer needs to be able to manage Spectrum Protect volumes not in defined within a storage pool.

A customer needs more information in the Operations Center to be able to manage volumes not part of a storage pool. Specifically:- volumes containing exported data.- volumes containing backupsets.- DB backup/DBSnapshot media.- volumes correlated t...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

HADR priming with online database backup

The current process to configure Tivoli Storage Manager for HADR is documented here: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Storage%20Manager/page/Electronic%20vaulting%20using%20deduplicated%20remote%20cop...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Utilization percentage of areas used by the product to store indexes should be displayed in the main product GUI. Not displaying this in a simple and readily available form can result in granular recoveries not being possible

If the utilization for the areas containing the lucern database (/data3 by default) was displayed within the main GUI it would be much simpler to keep track of issues that may affect recovery options further down the line. This would benefit all b...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to suppress ANS1115W ( File skipped due to exclude ) message

SITUATION1. TSM allows the exclusion of files and folders from its backup regime.2. At present, TSM will produce error messages for files/filders skipped due to the configuration.3. The messages are classed as 'warning' even though this is clearly...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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