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Storage Protect Family

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Need ability to hold a VADP proxy idle, in reserve, to quickly run ad-hoc jobs (or expedite/prioritise job to head of queue).

We have SLAs that run snapshot backups of VMs, each night. These jobs queue hundreds of VMs to have snapshots taken, and it takes hours for these to complete. Any adhoc snapshot or restore job that we launch during this backup window has to wait h...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

retset without retrule

The new feature retset requiers to define also an retrule with is basicly a scheduler. We use an external scheduler and don't need the retrule. It's also useless to define an retule for ontime retset. It should be possible to generate an retset wi...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

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...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

SPP Report section is limited and restricted by predefined shape which cant cover customer needs.

We need to have option to remove lines from report to report just relevant data for customer. For example: Predefined VM Backup History report contain : SLA Policy, Protection Time, Status Backup, Storage Backup, Size, Backup Speed,VM: HOSTNAME,Hy...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Oracle log backup status

The status of the Oracle log backup is found only in the job log. We would like the log backups to be more visible and easy to check for success or failure. If a failure of the Oracle DB is bad, we need to see a failure on the backup job on the da...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Active Directory integration with TSM

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

Allow JBB daemon to process files without a full backup completion stamp

Allow JBB daemon to start track files immediately, and upon request from dsmc using jbb, give the file list straight away. The full backup can be run in parallel, and may take weeks to complete, but the deltas can be backed up straight away.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

SP SERVER/OP CENTER: ENHANCE OPERATONS CENTER TO MANIPULATE ALL THE SCHEDULING FUNCTIONS AS IN SERVER COMMAND LINE

Enhance Operations Center with the same functions to control Client Scheduling with the same options present with Server Command Line in a WEB/GUI Interface and view.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Change QUERY ACTLOG output to match terminal window width

I'm not sure if this RFE applies to the server or dsmadmc client, but the request is to change the behavior of the QUERY ACTLOG command output to stretch (and wrap if necessary) to the current width of the terminal window where it is running.Other...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Optimize HSM file scan logic to prevent recall and re-backup of stub files after file move.

At Present, when a HSM stub file is moved, a subsequent TSM backup recalls the file and backs this up again. This is a huge problem in large HSM installations and causes significant issues for the administrators supporting the system, and IBM supp...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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