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Enable nas backup to use container stg pools

Today celera nas backup must use a devclass=file as target for backup. Please make container stgpool available as a target for NAS backup in general.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Operation Center Client Deployment Support for Ubuntu/Debian

Operation Center does not support Linux86 Ubuntu platform for client deployments.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Cancel process ALL

Add extra Cancel Process options - Cancel Process ALL- Cancel pro migration (or cancel migration)- Cancel pro backup (or cancel backup) For each process name a Cancel command. Cancel Expiration and Cancel Export already exists.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Support for SLES 15 using Spectrum Protect DP for HANA

I need a statement of support for DP for ERP SAP HANA on SLES 15
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Planned for future release

Restore are very slow

Querying of Exchange backups is very slow in a large environments. E.g. in environment with 100+ Exchange mailbox databases and 200 backups per each it take nearly 3 hours. This causes that restores are terribly slow.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under 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...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

provide SPP micro-agent installation packages

Customer organization has separation of responsibilities such that pushing micro-agents (specifically file-level indexing micro-agent) is onerous and time consuming. In similar cases in their organization, an agent installation package (including ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Provide OC / SP error that will notify us when server instance crash or hang

Is there an OC / SP error that will notify us when dsmserv is down (db2 is either down or up) and, notify us when an instance appears to be hung? IF that can be produced later on that would be a great advantage to keep administrators ahead with an...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Linux File Indexing without Root

We have not been able to expand use of SPP in our environment because Operating System Admins are unwilling to grant us accounts with root-level privileges. Can we get a list of the commands that SPP uses that require root-level permissions? The t...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration