IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    command line for the admin console gui for IBM Storage Copy Data Management software

    We would like to automate the backup of the Catalog Manager in the Backup Catalog . Currently we need to log into the gui and click backup daily. We might miss this over weekends and would be a big issue if we restore an old catalog. We have used ...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Under review

    Automated Restore for Spectrum Protect family of products

    Spectrum Protect is lacking any functionality which can automatically verify backup copies, whether they have been created using the BA client, TDP agents or Spectrum Protect Plus. Since Cristie pulled support for SP4VE from their Recovery Simulat...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Create backupset from directory container stgpool

    Directory containers give much better performance compared to the "old" version of dedup, but it makes it impossible to create Backupsets (and export) which several of my customers are using to get an annual backup offsite
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Operations Center: Automatic PMR Creation and Support Bundle Upload

    Automated open/creation of PMR from Spectrum Protect Operations Center and upload of Support Data Collection Bundle
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 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...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 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, ...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

    SnapDiff API v2

    As written in the NetApp KB, ISP is not able to use the SnapDiff API *v2*. https://kb.netapp.com/Advice_and_Troubleshooting/Data_Protection_and_Security/SnapDiff/When_performing_a_SnapDiff_incremental_backup_of_a_FlexGroup_volume%2C_Spectrum_Prote...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    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.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

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

    Please do not discontinue this support.
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

    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...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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