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Storage Protect Family

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Summary of how time is spent on a job in dsminstr.log - i.e. by percentage to easily determining the primary bottlenecks

Currently, all the information in the dsminstr.log is by thread, and it would be fantastic to know how to summarize this information on a job-level. This is very hard - if not impossible - to do in the current state, as all information is per thre...
2 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Needs more information

Support for HCL Domino Server 14

HCL Domino Server 14 has been available for some time now. The Storage Protect Agent for Mail/Domino does not yet support this version. Since we and various other customers are due to update their HCL Domino servers to version 14, I would like to ...
2 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Planned for future release

Change the status of this type of error , so no PARTIAL status is returned. Only some warnings in job log.

Error Message in the Application Inventory Job, which ends the Job partially (This trigger always a Ticket): [example.server.ch] A running instance was not found for database EXAMPLE. This error is raised because autostart is enabled in oratab. A ...
10 days ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support copy to Cloud Container Pool using STGRules

It's a very common use case to have one local backup of the data and for cyber resilience another air gaped copy on locked cloud storage. Unfortunately, this is currently not supported by Storage Protect. Please implement "Copy to Cloud Container ...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Provide a resource to verify PGP Keys in SW Packages (e.g. B/A Client)

The SW Packages usually contain a specific PGP key to check validity of the downloaded package. Unfortunately, these keys are changed/replaced without any announcement. By this, customers do not know if the PGP key he has is valid or manipulated. ...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Under review

File list limited for 1000 lines using restore node commnad

Hi team, we are using restore node NODE_NAME /FS FILELIST=FILE:/list_files_in_HEX.txt nametype=HEXadecimal. We are restoring data from NAS node. Customer is using France Diacritics in DIR and File names which impact filler on NAS side. Filler is u...
20 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Provide a simple administrative command to show the the total size of backed-up data on a server instance on a given single day (24 hours)

While it is required to size the replication server pairs, the product does not provide a simple administrative command to show the total size of backed-up data on a server instance on a given single day (24 hours). Currently, the only way to get ...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Storage Sentinel support for the Scanning Engine to run on IBM Power hardware.

For environments running SAP HANA on Power Linux, which is supported by Sentinel, there may not be x86_64 hardware in the environment for a Scanning Engine to be installed onto. The Scanning Engine needs to be installed where it can access the sto...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

Server Support for RHEL9

Currently RHEL 9.x has been GA for almost a year and is not supported for Storage Protect Server, forcing the use of ageing RHEL 8.x. Many orgs have a requirement to maintain software currency and would like to get their RHEL8->9 projects under...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

SP4VE increase max vmdk support limit of 8TB

Many customers have passed the 8TB for a single VMDK and currently cannot use SP4VE to protect these virtual machines.
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

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