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Storage Protect Family

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Reclaim database space

I know that Storage Protect automatically does some database maintenance operations, such as reorganization. It would also be useful do do some equivalent of db2 "ALTER TABLESPACE LARGESPACE1 REDUCE MAX" (and/or the same for other tablespaces), to...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Add parallelism when replicating data stored on tape

When using node replication with data stored on tape, the SP replication process is single threaded. This means that only a single tape drive will be used when replicating a node even if there are many free/available tape drives in the tape librar...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

"dsmadmc -tab" should escape tabs in output fields

The -tab option to dsmadmc is useful for passing output to other applications for parsing. Unfortunately, dsmadmc does not escape tabs in the output, which means that tools that expect tabs to be used only as column separators will incorrectly spl...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Disaster recovery from Storage Protect backup pool for big file systems

We are running multiple Storage Scale file systems in the multi Petabyte size. All data are in Storage Protect backup. The backup is very valuable in case of user driven data loss. But in the case of a disaster where the complete file system is lo...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Include fonts and other resources to GUI (Spp server)

Please remove external links to fonts etc from GUI. Management clients does not have access to internet. So, we have to wait for timeouts before continuing.
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

Support for Microsoft Server 2025 - WinGet

The IBM Storage Protect BA Client for Windows uses a complex installation process. spinstall.exe handles C++ package installation, language-specific MST files, and a file-by-file structure. This creates problems for mass deployment on Windows Serv...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Change behaviour of "move nodedata" command so that when the destination storage pool has a copy storage pool setup data is moved to both primary and copy storage pools

Being able to "move nodedata" to both a destination storage pool and its copy storage pool would be useful to maintain at least to copies of the data when moving data. Using the backup storage pool command can sync both source and copy storage poo...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

Add Auto deploy option in client option sets

The idea is to manage AUTODEPLOY YES/NO/NO REBOOT on clien option set level.
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

Multi-session retrieve functionality

Similar to an older idea Multi-session retrieve [SPF-I-947] I would very like IBM to reevaluate and hopefully support multi session support for Archive retrieve workloads. With the current implementation it is not feasible to archive data to ISP a...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Future consideration

SPP: Get SQL backup amount via REST API / report

I would like to have possibility in SPP to get correct backup amount (frontend size) for each client. Just for clarification frontend amount should be base backup + all transfer sizes before deduplication and compression. Actual build-in reports a...
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

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