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Storage Protect Family

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Allow filespace deletion for non-replicated nodes without blocking replication stgrule execution

Currently, a replication storage rule fails when a delete filespace is already running. The following messages is issued: ANR1079E Storage rule REPLICATION did not start a tiering process because a DELETE FILESPACE operation is in progress. I can ...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Improvement of usability by implementing a HOST command in dsmadmc

By using a HOST command or special character, commands can be issued at operating system level and you do not have to log out of dsmadmc.
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Update Management Class for backups/archives in TSM

in our environment TSM is used for data availability (systems and applications backups), and for data retention (archives of historical data).We have the case of files archived all with the same criteria -so the same Management Class- but now we r...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

SPP monthly storage & billling report

Report to customer how the allocated SPP storage is used in order to know the space used by each backup nodes.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

SPP - restart a job for one VM in Sla

we need to restart a backup job for one VM (if errors during last sla jobs)
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Extension of the Table "Replicationview" by the columns batchesQ and batchesD

Hello, the command "show replication" shows the number of "batchesQ" and "batchesD".Is it planned to implement the number of "batchesQ" and "batchesD" in the table REPLICATIONVIEW?Currently I can't find any columns in this table regarding this. En...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

Need to improve file restore option to assign limited restore permission

Need to improve file restore option to assign limited restore permission because in the current version we have to implement multiple settings.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Restore of backed up Hyper-V VMs from a replica source where replica vm name is the same may fail

Based on APAR IT34036, backing up Hyper-V VMs from a replica source where replica vm name is the same as the original virtual machine name can result in data to become unrecoverable because the state of the original vm and the replica may differ (...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

TSM4VE Cloud Service Provider Mode

Because of all ransomware attacks we see more transformations from other backup vendors back to IBM Storage Protect for VE, but the issue with TSM4VE is that it demanding a System Account in the Storage Protect Server to be able to work, we have d...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Storage Rule Exclude Function

Today when you create a Storage Rule Replication you can either assign all nodes or exclude all nodes and then create a subrule and include/exclude specific nodes. In our case do we have a 2 Sites solution where we replicate data between sites, th...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review