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Open Spectrum protect S3 agent for use by BRMS (iSeries)

The intent is to open up the S3 Agent for use by entities other than Spectrum Protect Plus. Target for this request is iSeries BRMS which is currently using S3 to send backup data to cloud.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Configurable block size for tape

We have a tape library about 50km away from the managing SP server; connected over fibre. Due to the nature of the FC protocol for tape drives (strictly serial acknowledgement) and the latency, a single data stream gets limited to around 120MBps, ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

Support for GFS2 file systems

Support for GFS2 file systems. Customer tested the backup and restore of GFS2 FileSystems and the attributes are not restored. Then, the current solution is not valid
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

SCOM Management Pack for Spectrum Protect, Sectrum Protect Plus.

A management pack for the management of Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus in System Center Operation Manager.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Need larger DB2 active log file size

While working on HADR, a DB2 specialist noted that DB2 under SP was archiving the active log at a higher than normal rate and recommended increasing the current DB2 LOGFILSIZ to make it ten (10) times larger. However, the customer was unable to ma...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

additional status "MAINTENANCE" for drives and paths

Drives and paths only the both status' ONLINE and OFFLINE. An additional one "MAINTENANCE" or "OFFLINE asap" would be extremely useful for the preparation of maintenance (especially unplanned due to an error) to get a library free of accesses.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Oracle ACFS Support for Copy Data Management

Navy Federal Credit Union (NFCU) is evaluating CDM v2.2.9 for Oracle. SQL has passed the eval. Oracle is running ACFS as the standard at NFCU. Looking for CDM support for ACFS
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Spectrum protect, official support for RedHat 8

Hi. There is a need to use RedHat 8 servers. Lacking support for backups on Spectrum Protect
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Limit SP client install to supported OS

According to SP client release notes page:https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21052226The client is OS requirement is AIX 7.1 or 7.2, however the installation proceeds without any error on AIX 6.1 / VIO 2.2.xStarting the scheduler ju...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Manager needs to support Metro Mirror or Metro Mirror with Consistency volumes

CDM needs to support Metro Mirror in addition to global mirror change volumes. This would decrease the need for additional space on the primary storage.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration