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My votes: Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Improve documentation on Spectrum Protect Object Agent

See related case TS008878679. There is no documentation on the configuration details of the Object Agent. The object agent is needed to offload data from Spectrum Protect Plus to Spectrum Protect. There is no documetation on the object_agent_confi...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Admin User Creation Segregation of Duty

Due to enhanced security requirements the customer would like to have a segregation of duty for the creation of admin users. The possibility of creating new admin users and granting them system authority should be removed from the admin/system aut...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Lift the limit that one filespace can only have one node replication session

I got more than 50 filespaces, some of these filespaces are filled with PB-level file data. To replicate one of the PB-level filespaces on LTO-8 tapes, will take more than one month. 1PB=1024*1024*1024 MB LTO-8 Drive read/write speed: 360MB/s 1024...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Migrate Storagepool - Client data is faster than migration

Client backups fail when migration of storage pool to successor storagepool takes too long.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Change of srvmon directory to different path instead of instance path

Our instance home directory which is 20 GB in size is getting full as the hidden collection folder in srvmon directory is using up to 15 GB of the space in instance directory before it can get purged.
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

speed up backup stgpool for file pools with dataformat=nonblock

On a SP server, we have lots of data from a CM8 environment, e.g. very many small files. About half of it from ICC and the other half from d3. 99% of this data is stored in FILE pools with DATAFORMAT=NONBLOCK because otherwise SP would cause a sto...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Support tiering from cloud to directory container storage pools

Currently, SP only supports tiering data from a directory container storage pools to cloud container storage pools. Once your data has moved to the cloud, you won't be able to move it back. The only way to do this is by destroying (!) your data in...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Secondary control for Adminstraive schedule jobs

This is a basic request. When a administrator leaves the company or change of project, per process the respective admin ID should be deleted from Spectrum Protect ( remove admin ). However the "remove admin" command just process the deletion reque...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Encrypt CREDentialsfile

IBM really? stores credentials in plain text. Does your policy allow this?
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Avoid dropping instance while upgrade

Upgrading to current IBM Spectrum Protect Version drops instance during installation in silent mode although settings in responsefile to not touch/update the DB were set.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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