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Storage Protect Family

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    need ability to view the dsm.opt file on a windows system and be able to add/subtract entries from the TSM server (spectrum protect)

    need ability to view the dsm.opt file on a windows system and be able to add/subtract entries from the TSM server (spectrum protect) This would be useful because many people cannot login to windows world if they are unix admins and manage the aix ...
    about 7 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Allow a single defender eagle agent to manage multiple SP servers

    This enhancement would simplify the ability to roll SP server information up into the defender DMS. Currently, each SP server must have a separate eagle agent, which can be inefficient especially if managing multiple AIX SP servers, as each would ...
    2 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    The restriction of maximum VMDK size for data protection for VMWARE should be increased

    While current maximum VMDK size defined by VMware vSphere on VMFS is up to 62TB, the ISP for VE will allow backup only disks up to 8 TB - larger disks will fail. It should be increased to keep up with the product features.
    2 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

    SnapDiff-Support for ONTAP 9.18

    Could you please add Snapdiff support for ONTAP version 9.17 and 9.18? https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/154613
    7 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Planned for future release

    Expose file ownership (UID/GID) and permissions in dsmc query backup to enable self-service restores

    We are using `mmbackup` to back up large IBM Storage Scale (GPFS) file systems that are shared by thousands of users.Our goal is to offer self-service restores using `dsmc` while ensuring that users can only restore files they have POSIX-Access to...
    9 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Submitted

    Support for Ontap 9.17.1 /9.18.1

    The support for Ontap 9.16.1 runs out in 31. Januar 2028. The support for Ontap 9.15.1 on 31. Juli 2027. So only 1,5 or 2 years left. Please support more current releases
    13 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0

    make the ba-client scan a _single filesystem_ for new/changed/deleted files/dirs via parallel threads

    question: when will the ba-client be able to search through a _single filesystem_ for new/changed/deleted files/dirs via parallel threads? this feature is standard among most of ba-clients competitors and customers are asking for this frequently.
    13 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    Import the data from tape and sequential volumes, written from other IBM Storage Protect servers

    Why is it useful? This feature will help with restoring/retrieving data from the tapes, which may have expired in database and also if the tapes are owned/written by other SP server. Who will benefit from it? This feature will help in DR tests, wh...
    15 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Predictable handling of encrypted EXT4 directories on Linux

    For now the error when accessing an encrypted EXT4 directory by the backup client can be ignored by a setting in dsm.sys (see support case). But this leads to the effect, that an encrypted directory will be considered in a backup if the encryption...
    18 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    Support for vApp options during restoration

    We noticed that after a restore, vapp Options are disabled with the loss of the settings which was previously defined on these vapp options.
    20 days ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

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