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Server support for Red Hat 8

Spectrum Protect server needs to run on latest Red Hat Enterpise Linux editions 8 and 8.1.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

SP Plus interface enhancement: job monitor

In the Job monitor tab, add possiblity to filter entries to easily differentiate administrative tasks and backup tasks . Basically the Type column is already there but cannot be even used to sort the entries.Furthermore another column providing th...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

'failureDetectionTime' less than 10

We require to set 'failureDetectionTime' less than 10 in File System replica with DAE/DME or Erasure Coding with ECE. According to case #TS009816891, the minimum value for 'failureDetectionTime' is 10. Could you please allow us to set less than 10...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - hardware snapshot integration with Power and x86

Spectrum Protect Plus does not support storage hardware snapshot technology and the integration with Power VS and x86.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Restore "not backed up disks" as empty disks in VMWare

Following DR Scenario:VM with a database on it. We backup only the root and opt Disks using VMware backup, DB and log gets backed up using SPP DB Backup. 4 disks:Hard Disk 1 --> rootvg (SCSI0:0) backupHard Disk 2 --> dbvg (SCSI0:1) no backup...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

more granular scheduling in Spectrum Protect OC Reports

The OC accepts only scheduled reports for daily or weekly. No Day of week or month nor time could be selected separately for each configured report.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

OC nodegroup handling

When dealing with node replication there is sometimes a need to group certain nodes in nodegroups i.e. for more frequent replication than for other nodes. I'd like to see a panel where one can create and display nodes grouped by nodegroup and also...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

SPP - Have tha ability to move data off of one vsnap to another.

Customer has asked for a way to do two items: 1) Recover from the loss of a vsnap server where the storage is still viable if mounted to another vsnap server. 2) As needed move data off of one vsnap server to another vsnap server.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Check customer informations consistency in both HMC

In the case, the second HCM did a call home, but the customer EMAIL was not present (it was in the first HMC). the problem is certainly an installation problem, but despite this, this problem prevent the support to email back to the customer (writ...
about 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

ARM support for Spectrum Protect client

The Jülich Supercompting Centre is running HPC compute resources for the European Science community. The storage solution is based of a central storage cluster which is mounted on ~8.000 compute nodes. The persistent data are backed up by Spectrum...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Future consideration