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My ideas: Storage Protect Family

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Display retentionset in the BA client

The new Retention set function (aka OneProtect) is great but from the BA client (or TSM4VE) it's not possible to see which retention sets that are available. Id like to get the info on "q retset" info in the server into the BA client. On the cli s...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Directory Container Erasure Coding

I have multiple smaller customers where we only have 1 Storage Protect server and are not using any tape to be able to run protect storage pool. This is little bit of a risk and also we put all our data in to one solution and if we get bad contain...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

Spectrum Protect Plus file level restore sudo previleges

Hi IBM, We are trying to enable file level restore on SPP and we are following the below URL.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spp/10.1.8?topic=requirements-file-indexing-restore One of the pre-rquisite is to enable superuser privileges for the agent us...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Replication, Resume Backup on Target vSnap

When vSnap replication for backups/SLA is enabled, incremental backup is only possible to the one, primary vSnap. If vSnap on primary site fails/unavailable, currently a new FULL backup on the secondary/replication site must be done, even if it ho...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Configure Eligible for log backup for SQL-database model to yes

I was told that the deployment of the SQL databases is done using the model-database. While every database will be implemented in roll-forward mode also the model database is configured to roll-forward.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow larger than 256 KiB blocks while accessing tape devices

As by TS009588298 we have performance issue while accessing tape drives, and using a larger block size (e. g. 2 Mebibytes instead of the now maximum 256 KiB) is improving performance a lot. This would even make it possible for us to backup the SP-...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SPVE needs a Parameter to ignore failed quiesced snapshot if its not the last try

SPVE marks a schedule run with Warning if for one vm in the schedule one try to make a quiesced snapshot fails. This behavior makes no sense if INCLUDE.VMSNAPSHOTATTEMPTS is set to more than one quiesced snapshot try. It only makes sense if the la...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

Moving the TSM Server parameter DIRECTIO NO from a server-wide option into a device class specific parameter

The Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) server will, by default, use non-buffered I/O bypassing the file system cache. By specifying the server option DIRECTIO NO within the dsmserv.opt, this behavior can be changed – means TSM is using the file system c...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Allow a single SPP server instance to backup/restore more than 2 billion files

This RFE is to remove the current limitation of ~2 billion files to be indexed for backup and restore operations on a single SPP server.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus User Experience Enhancements

User enhancement requests for Spectrum Protect Plus Make the dashboard interactive i.e. ability to drill down into the protection summary, the unprotected summary, failed jobs and running jobs. Make the dashboard customisable. All data accessible ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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