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Storage Protect Family

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Advanced Analytics and cataloging for Spectrum Protect

At present, Spectrum Protect does not seem to provide an advanced method of querying its database to find things such as duplicated files around the environment, file ownership, usage by owner, etc. This capability can make it difficult to find ob...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

support Datamover and Proxy 8.1.6 on Windows Server 2016 SAC (not LTSC)

Consider to add support for Windows Server 2016 LTSC and Windows Server 2016 SAC for Datamover and Proxynode TSM for VE 8.1.6
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

SCDM should allow for customization of permissions it sets on Oracle directories, or just leave the permissions alone.

SCDM changes the existing permissions on the /apps/oracle/admin directory and other files when an instant oracle database restore is performed. SCDM should either put them back exactly the way were before the restore job started, or allow for cust...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

backupManagementTag: Unassigned instead of excluded

'dsmc show VM all' command output displaying "backupManagementTag: Unassigned" for excluded guests.Example :backupManagementTag: UnassignedbackupManagementTagSource: Tag on (vSphere object name) (mobid)
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Supporting Cloud-Container Storage pools on zLinux

Cloud-container storage pools is a feature that that already exists on Spectrum Protect family but it is not supported neither has a roadmap for it on top of Linux on Z.Today Sicoob already uses Spectrum protect on Linux on Z and not having a prop...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Enable the use of VPC Endpoint Interface URL for S3 bucket access when defining Cloud Container Storage Pool in Operations Ce

When defining a cloud container storage pool, an option of 'Other' URL is given, and in the CLI a CLOUDUrl can be specified with a custom URL. Instructions say to use the region S3 endpoint URL. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-protect/8.1.11?...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Database Report

the SPP does not have a specific report for databases with the total consumed separately from the VMs
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

configure Tape drive Cleaning Frequency after written TB or used time instead of "as needed" or "999MB"

The default available Cleaning Frequency managed by TSM is restricted to 999GBSince LTO the recommended Frequency is based on working (write) hours for about 100hr or TB of written Data.For HP Drives it is recommended to clean every 100 R/W-hours....
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

IM SPectrum Protect support for expired data report

URGENT Requirement : Nedbank, in South Africa, are a large consumer of Spectrum Protect ans many other IBM products and are an ELA customer.. They urgently require assistance with an enhancement for them to be able to see when files were expired/d...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

Option to modify updated weekdays and weekend in spectrum protect

We are located in UAE and here weekdays and weekend are different what is defined in the spectrum protect server . I want to update weekdays and weekend definition in the system according to this region . like mentioned below. Weekdays = Sunday, M...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration