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Storage Protect Family

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Allow more to be done through Operations Center

You have a perfectly fine start to a really useful front end to Tivoli in the Operations Center but you can barely DO anything with it. I don't want to dig around and deal with 3 line long commands to accomplish simple tasks that are point and cli...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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

dsmc backup image shall support HACMP filesystems

When you have large filesystems with 100 milliions of files the normal TSM client is not usefull for doing daily incremental backup. Even with the journal based backup this is not applicable. You can use the dsmc backup image command. But if the f...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

MOVE DATA command enhancement

The enhancement I'd like to see is a PREVIEW option on the MOVE DATA command. The preview would summarise which tapes will be required for the move but would not actually move any data. Knowing which tapes will be required can be important in situ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus backup support for VMWare Tanzu TKG container environment

An important italian customer with a large SP and SPP installation has already implemented OpenShift backup with SPP. He has also container environments based on VMWare Tanzu TKG and he needs to protect such environment. My request is about the su...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Request to add native Sybase Support to Spectrum Protect (DP for Sybase)

Sybase produces Enterprise class RDBMS solutions for a variety of uses cases and industries. While perhaps not as pervasive as MS SQL or Oracle, the product does appear fairly frequently in customer environments. While there are a variety of metho...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

Need of dsmadmc command to query "SET ACCESS" grants

I would like to have the possibility to query "SET ACCESS" grants for all nodes and users from dsmadmc client like the single client user can do by dsmc client and command "QUERY ACCESS" for its own grants. I can do this kind of query connecting d...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Backup SLA hung

More generic job timeout option if for any reason a database/VM backup would hold the entire job
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future 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...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Prevent media with read/write errors to be reused

When a tape has a write error, it should not be reused when it has returned to scratch pool. We need some method to track media statistics across the life time of a tape, from all the SP host that has used the tape. Each SP server should send tape...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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