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My votes: Storage Protect Family

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Support to backup S3-based on-premise Object storage (private cloud) to Tapes using ISP or ISPP

Object storage is trending these days and we want to be able to secure it using IBM Spectrum Protect or IBM SPP on tapes. Currently no option to do so on standard S3 protocol. Other vendors are supporting backing up S3-based object storage into ta...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 5 Planned for future release

SPP for Microsoft 365 : backup shared mailboxes

In the Microsoft Exchange Online (365) product, you have mailboxes linked to existing people (people with mail license) that you can backup.But, you also have "shared mailboxes" (Microsoft's term) that do not need mail license. However, I'd like t...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Need support of Power 9 Compression HW chip on AIX Client for TSM Server and Client

Hellowe have implemented a new Backup LAN with CISCO ACI Network 40 GBit and made backup over this seperate lan to tsm serverWe need to do a compression on the TSM Client side because the TSM Servers has currently not the capabilities to store unc...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

customer needs more information in Operations Center to be able to effectively perform disaster recovery.

A customer needs more information in the Operations Center to be able to effectively perform Disaster Recovery (testing or real-life). This includes:- Volume history information for DB Backup/DB Snapshot.- DRM Volumes and status/location. - volume...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

TSM Node replication should report warning instead of failure when associated node cannot be replicated

TSM 7.1.x reports a replication failure when a client node that has been setup for replication has an associated node which is not setup for replication or is a Receive Node. Replication succeeds, but process result is FAILURE, which is not the ca...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

access to the object is denied backup error does not fail a snapdiff backup.

Snapdiff backup shows completed successfully even when encountering ANS4007E access to the object is denied. This error should result if a backup failure. If access denied shows up at directory/volume level then no data may be backed up hence defe...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Nodes with retention sets require to have dedicated metadata to be replicated to target server void expiration of data

Hi Team, i having issue in performance on Source TSM server due to TSM DB size is more than 13TB in size, so my management requested to split current TSM server with Multiple server (2 new TSM server). So by moving Filesystem backup for top 40serv...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

ReFS and S2D support for Spectrum Protect server on Windows

The IBM Spectrum Protect server installation on Windows does currently not support the resiliant filesystem (ReFS) from Microsoft as underlying filesystem due to restrictions of supported filesystems for the DB2 database. The Spectrum Protect team...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

IBM SPP to show daily replication throughput

Customer needs to know the daily replication throughput and status for SPP vsnap replication.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Integrate Restore UI with Spectrum Protect server

Symentac Netbackup, Commuvault and other Backup software have RESTORE UI integrated with Master server console. We need to develop Spectrum Protect with the RESTORE UI integrated with Spectrum Protect server
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

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