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TSM &HSM independently backup data & metadata

It is about making TSM (SpectrumProtect) and HSM ready to deal with large number of files and huge data pods by doing backup of data independently from meta data.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 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

Lack of anomaly scanning integration with IBM Spectrum Protect Family

Lack of anomaly scanning integration to detect, diagnose and recover clean copies from a Cyber attack with IBM Spectrum Protect Family.Lack of this functionality is a major road block to deploy/adoption an IBM supported Cyber Resiliency solution.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

Spectrum protect, official support for RedHat 8

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

Less tape-commits with server-processes like Backup Stg, Migration and Reclamation to improve throuput

TSM does a tape-commit (and thus a time-consuming backhitch on the tape drive) every time the backup-date, the nodename, the filespace or even the managementclass within a single filespaces of a single node changes. This is regardless of / precede...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Keep supporting TSM API (backup to TSM via BRMS on IBM i)

Please do not discontinue this support.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under 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.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect: Task Time Preview and Progress Indicators

There are currently no preview or progress indicators for server and client related tasks. It would be good to get an indication of how long a task will take before kicking it off as well as an indication of how much time is still remaining for th...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management missing RHEL 8 support

Currently Spectrum Copy Data Management 2.2.13 does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Vmware Backup Failure ANR messages do not display the actual hostname and of the datamover on all platforms.

Vmware Backup Failure ANR messages do not display the actual hostname and of the datamover on all platforms. ANE4174E Full VM backup of VMware Virtual Machine 'vmname' failed with RC=rc mode=full_or_incr, target node name='target_node_name', data ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration