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Storage Protect Family

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Allow individual NDMP backups to be deleted with a new "delet nasbackup" command

At present only the following methods can be used to delete NDMP backups in Spectrum Protect 1. Altering the copygroup settings for the management class in the policy domain which the NDMP backups are bound to and allowing expiration to run.2. Del...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Azure SQL Database and Managed Instance Backup

Customers are migrating SQL databases to Azure, running them either as Azure SQL Databases or Azure SQL Managed Instances. There is no IBM documentation which acknowledges whether any of the Spectrum Protect products support backup of SQL PaaS in ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

DEACTIVATE DATA command enter a list of nodes, or date range or possibly of another platforms (DB2, SQL) NODEGROUP

Will DEACTIVATE commands be able to be executed to enter a series a series of NODES, or for a NODEGROUP? Will the commands be able to be executed for a certain date range, and not only with the current option of TODATE=TODAY-xx days? Is it planned...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Admin User Creation Segregation of Duty

Due to enhanced security requirements the customer would like to have a segregation of duty for the creation of admin users. The possibility of creating new admin users and granting them system authority should be removed from the admin/system aut...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Active Directory integration with TSM

Full Active Directory integration required as a single sign on solution
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Mailbox Item Level restore

There is functionality with ISP for Mail (Exchange) that let administrators to restore mailbox item from mailbox database backup, using Mailbox Restore Browser - functionality in ISP for Mail GUI, but it works up to MS Exchange 2013. With Exchange...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under 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

AIX update Spectrum protect server instal manual to set maxuproc='4096'

I tried to "su" to tsminst1 userid, and got the following message.0403-030 the fork function failed. Too many processes allready exist.ulimit -Hc , Hd, Hf, Hn, and Ht allready set to unlimited.I ran the following command;lsattr -E -l sys0 -a maxup...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

SPP automatically deleting Job ID when all VMs/Datastores are deselected

Spectrum Protect Plus when removing datastores or VMs from an SLA policy if you remove all the SLA policy goes into a "deleted" state on the back end and when you assign a new datastore even if it was the same one it creates a new Job ID and does ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Specify Management Class for Hyper-V Backup

When backing up hyper-v virtual machines, we should able to specify target management class like a VMMC option at vmware backups.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

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