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My votes: Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Web based Blue-print document for Spectrum protect /plus

We are using Blue-Print document to configure our environment for Spectrum protect / plus. This is document and many times it gets ignored by customers to configure their environment. It is important to refer blue-Print document before sizing / co...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Option "Skipmissingsyswfiles" to be allowed in the Client Options Set

The "Skipmissingsyswfiles" option is needed to stop SP/TSM from skipping system state files that will be needed for a "Bare Metal Restore" (BMR). Currently this option can only be set in the DSM.OPT file. We want to be able to set this option in t...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Manage proxy node ( restore Only , backup Only ,both)

Hello, We have production and not production environment. Some nodes needs to be restored on not production environment. But a derogation is mandatory to do it. So, we configured proxy nodes . Then we can lock and unlock the nodes to be compliance...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Document update to be more precise in what is not supported

In the Spectrum Protect Server document, "Configuring clustered environments" section, there is a line below. > You can use other cluster products with IBM Spectrum Protect; however, documentation is not available and support is limited. https:...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Private AWS DirectConnect domain support in SP

Our customer need to have support in Spectrum Protect for using private AWS DirectConect domain for VPCE in URL Cloud Connection for S3. SP currently support only public domain in URL like "s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com" This Spectrum Protect limitat...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Test Restore Periodically

Restore customer data Periodically without needing of system outage or stand by system.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

All server-side command to control which SP server a client connects to as primary

Allow Spectrum Protect administrator to issue a command that will alert a node it should connect to a different SP server as a primary.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Improve "generate dedupstats" to run filespaces in node parallell

When running generate dedupstats on a node with thousands of VM filespaces, it runs for weeks before it completes. These should kick off in separate processes so that it can be managed by the Maxprocesses value.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Support DELL ECS and other for S3 lock container

Give the Avaibility to add an S3 lock container on a Dell ECS solution to improve the security. Actually it's just possible to lock the data on COS or AWS.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Enable Admin with Policy Privilege to "upd no sessionsec=trans" (currently fails with ANR2035E)

Admin user has been granted „Policy Privilege: WIN“ and can execute "unlock node" and "update node" for resetting password.BUT upd node fails with "ANR2035E UPDATE NODE: Administrator XYZ is not authorized to issue this command." when resetting fo...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration