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Storage Protect Family

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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...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under 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

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

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

SPP M365 Backup via Proxy

Several clients are enforcing the usage of a client provided HTTP/HTTPS proxy server to grant systems access to the Internet. In such case the IP network traffic is not routed through the default gateway. That is the reason why a client proxy need...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus: Improvement suggestion for the Restore-OpenShift function "Restore to alternate cluster"

System: IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Server Spectrum Protect Plus is used to secure the various OpenShift clusters. In the event of a disaster recovery, it is a common scenario that the saved status of the defective cluster has to be transferred to a...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Remove null node name used for directory container storage pools from occupancy table

For directory container stgpools the Occupancy table contains an entry with a null nodename. This entry holds about half of the total files and reporting MB of that stgpool. Actually the real size of the stgpool is the total reporting MB minus the...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Improve the security for S3 buckets & SPP including support for SAML authentication.

Currently many tools that implement SSO (Single Sign-on) allow the use of SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) technology to raise the level of security and automate authentication with various tools. SAML is a standardized way of telling ext...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

To enable option within SPP for setting multipe bandwidth throttle limits

At the moment, SPP has the option only to set single throttle limit for replication & copy operations, but will it be better to allow the option to have multiple bandwidths throttling limits, during varied time schedules. Example as below: Bus...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

Replicate retentionset and retention rules

I have found a pretty bad design flaw in the retentionset. We use replication to move data off old SP servers to new hardware (or between OS).If the source server have retentionsets, then the data is replicated to the target server but not the ret...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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