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Add support to Spectrum Protect Plus for DB2 on Windows Systems

Actually Spectrum Protect Plus does not support DB2 running on Windows Systems.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP integration with vmware VIX

VMware VIX api integration provides a very useful tool to avoid VMware virtual machines can backup/restore indivual files from Hypervisor instead of accessing directly to the VM. VM accesses is not necessary. In many customers, VM networks are not...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Appliance High Availability

Spectrum Protect Plus Appliance holds critical Data to backup and restore VMs. At present there is no way to make this Highly Available (HA) similar to Vsphere appliance. During normal operation we should be able to: Switch to secondary site and s...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Support ZFS on Linux Client

We use FreeBSD servers with ZFS filesystems on our large storage systems. Since there is no native FreeBSD Spectrum Protect Backup-Archive Client, we intend to use the Linux version leveraging FreeBSD's Linux runtime environment. But the SP Backup...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Shorten the pending IO time to 5-30s during node expel

When node in ECE cluster was expelled from cluster, the IO pending time is long as 1-3 minutes. Some of applications failure due to long pending time,especial to OLTP or AI training jobs. Competitors which using traditional dual-controllers mode c...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Add Logical Volume MiB used to TS7700 search engine

The TS7700 Virtual Tape system knows about the space used for each logical volume with data, but the search logical volume panel does not have an option to report on volume usage, and its critical.
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Need larger DB2 active log file size

While working on HADR, a DB2 specialist noted that DB2 under SP was archiving the active log at a higher than normal rate and recommended increasing the current DB2 LOGFILSIZ to make it ten (10) times larger. However, the customer was unable to ma...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

Enable SPP Oracle log backup logging

While roll forwarding a oracle DB when restoring, the restore suddenly stopped, because a log file was not provided. Unfortunately, in the logs for the log backup to vSnap, you cannot see which log files were backed up and if everything was succes...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

mmhealth should complain about NSDs which have lost one path

Listing the NSDs shows that some of themhave only one path available. One of the two servers of a building block does not see the Volume:[root@justnsd01a ~]# mmlsnsd -f cesSharedRoot -X Disk name NSD volume ID Device Devtype Node name Remarks ----...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Running jobs on an SLA consecutively

Spectrum Protect Plus allows us to run all jobs on a schedule. When replicating, copying or archiving a backup data we need to set a time to the job.But sometimes backups take more time than usual and in that case replication and/or copy job fails...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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