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My votes: Spectrum Protect (Server)

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IBM Spectrum Protect OSSM support for SPP on Windows platform

We have many customers using SP server on Windows and running SPP in Hyper-V on top of it, we want to get rid of SPP vSnap but we can't do it when using SP server on Windows. And we can't deploy SP on Linux with SPP in KVM because SPP in KVM is no...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

Migrate data from Spectrum Protect (Existing S3 pools to different Cloud Object Storage)

To migrate data from existing IBM Clever Safe Object Storage bucket to different S3 compatible buckets using Spectrum Protect TSM server.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

1500 character limit for SQL statements in dsmadmc

Currently there is a limit that commands im dsmadmc can't be longer than 1500 characters else error ANS8028E will be raised.For most commands this limit is fine but for Spectrum Protect server scripts with complex SQL statements this is a real str...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 50 Future consideration

Ransomware Information

Information about Client anomaly is reported into the table ACTLOG in Column "MESSAGE" with VARCHAR (3001) - ANR3692W A client backup anomaly... This information is nice but not practical to get selected/grouped information from it. I think all ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Support-info collection, upload and analytics tool

It is a pain to collect db2diag-logs, dsmffdc-logs, Q SYSTEM output, Q ACT output and so on for every support ticket, then bundle the files, scp to computer with browser and upload to IBM Support. Why not, instead of sending the commands every tim...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Ability to configure alert summary email frequency

IBM Spectrum Protect offers the ability to enable sending an alert summary email up to three admin ids. The option (set alertsummarytoadmins) is not configurable. If you specify an adminid a summary email will be send every hour. Its not possible ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Allow individual NDMP backups to be deleted with a new "delet nasbackup" command

At present only the following methods can be used to delete NDMP backups in Spectrum Protect 1. Altering the copygroup settings for the management class in the policy domain which the NDMP backups are bound to and allowing expiration to run.2. Del...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Allow Target Server to be specified on Replicate Node

Allow the the target replication server to be specified on the replicate node command. In addition, document the DOMAIN option on replicate node in online and admin quide.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Space and container usage on SP server

Ever since directory container pools was introduced, the "undocumented / unsupported" command: show sdpool has been the best/only way of managing free, used and unavailable space in the dedup/non-dedup containers. In many cases a manual "move cont...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Export node on container pools

The ability to export node data when using container pools
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration