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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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When IBM spectrum protect baclient will support SNAPDIFF backup on NETAPP version 9.13.y?

The BA client version 8.1.13 (or later) up to but not including version 8.1.23 supports NetApp ONTAP versions up to 9.9.y (where y is 0 or higher). Starting with version 8.1.23 (or later), support extends to NetApp ONTAP versions up to 9.12.y (whe...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Delivered

SnapDiff v3 with ONTAP 9.16 and newer

It's great that Snapdiff V3 is now available with client version 8.1.23, but support is only available for ONTAP 9.12 and older versions. NetApp told us there is no reason for this. Could you please add support for ONTAP 9.13 and newer? IBM Suppor...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

Renew Certificate for all clients

Now have many of our IBM Storage Protect Server been running for years and it is time to renew our certificate especially our self-signed version that many of our installations has been configured with. In the 8.1.20 Server version is it now possi...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

Add Support of Snapdiff API v3

Dear developers NetApp provides a protocol or API called SnapDiff. Spectrum Protect currently supports the API in the Release v1. Now that v2 and v3 of SnapDiff are already available (as a REST API), NetApp has discontinued support for v1 in curre...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Delivered

Introduce Timeout in DSMCAD

By default, dsmcad doesn't have any time out value. Post Rapid Force NVA 6.6.128 upgrade, the connection of NVA Scan is not closing as expected. Post Scan of TSM Client on dynamic or dedicated dsmcad port, the connection stays as active, dsmcad se...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

Allow IBMi to backup to Spectrum Protect (again)

IBMi used to be able to backup using a TSM client to a TSM/Spectrum Protect Server.With IBM Protectier TS7650 being removed, our IBM i core banking environment no longer has a disk-based BRMS VTL to backup to.We have IBM Spectrum Protect running a...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Delivered

TIVsm-WEBGUI REST API documentation

Having installed and configured TIVsm-WEBGUI package the REST API is visable an useable. But no documentation exists.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

Support for Ontap 9.5 with BA Client

There is no documentation for support of BA client backups of Ontap 9.5 on NetApp appliances. The highest mentioned is Ontap 9.3 supported bu 8.1.4. I have a customer that is about to migrate to a new data center and as part of this move replace t...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

Snapdiff backup support for SP 8.1.4.1 Windows client and OnTap 9.3P2

We currently use Spectrum Protect 8.1.2 client to do SnapDiff backup of OnTap 8.3.2P7 file shares. We would like to be able to do the same using Spectrum Protect 8.1.4.x doing SnapDiff backups of OnTap 9.3P2 file shares. This functionality is crit...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

Require Generic TSM Client Login Failure Messages

TSM Backup/Archive Admin Client and Client display failures that are too explicit, and the requirement is that it is generic, in order to meet security requirements:.For this TSM issue, one message overlaps, that for the wrong password. This shoul...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

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