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Change the IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Microsoft SQL Server autoselect to select backups prior to the backup endtime, instead of the backups prior to the backup starttime

The LSN (Log Sequence Number) checkpoint is created when an SQL backup concludes. This can lead to the autoselect function in IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Microsoft SQL Server, selecting a log backup between the Difffuls or Full backups start...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

A command is needed to manually drop the FilesToCache and StatCache of the Client node mounted with GPFS to release the tokens of the server

same as the topic
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Feature request: Scan all the errors necessary to identify corrupted files on a disk (LUN)

Issue: mmdeldisk command fails because there are corrupt files on an NSD (LUN). The feature should run mmrestripefs, mmdeldisk, mmrpldisk to check for any errors. By just scanning for the errors those commands produce, the clients could run it eas...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Enhanced possiblities for defining password policy in SPP

SPP does only allow to configure a minimum password length within the Global Preferences. Setting further options like: - minimum number of upper case characters- minimum number of lower case characters- minimum number of special characters- minim...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

followsymbolic option for windows

There is no option to back up a content of a linked (or junction) directory on Windows.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Commands in FS7200 CLI needs more verbosity levels

In troubleshooting connections and logins, ie inside DNS, LDAP, Proxy, Call Home tests then cli does not give enough information. All the time snaps are needed and then look into those to troubleshoot.
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

SPP should disable vSphere storage vMotion during backup

If vSphere storage vMotion is performed during SPP VM backup there may be left orphaned VMDK files on datastores. This causes operational problems for customers
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

SP Operation Center - Enhance View - Storage --> Tape Device

In the OperationsCenter gui in Storage --> Tape Devices the link to 'Libraries' on the top left is pointing to the same location as the upper link: Storage --> Tape Devices https://servername:11090/oc/gui#tapeIt would make more sense to poin...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Requirements and design to deal with 10 billion of indexed files

Spectrum Discover with Spectrum Protect Customer wants to build a spectrum discover environment which handles up to 12 billion indexed files we are testing Spectrum Discover with 02 Spectrum Protect servers as data sources. Only these two server r...
about 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

Dual authentication for TS7700 constructs

Many of my TS7700 customers are starting to tight up security to protect the environment from both internal and external attack. In the TS7700 grid environment, there is a risk that the TS7700 constructs, especially the MGMTCLAS constructs, can be...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

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