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IBM Spectrum Protect Server database online REORG cancelling running process & sessions

During online IBM Spectrum Protect Server database REORG current running process/sessions are cancelling. I don't have free window to run reorg alone. Below are the tables creating problem 11/10/2017 11:58:26 AM ANR1880W Server transaction was can...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Please implement a "relabel_empty" feature similar to relabel_scratch, VTLs need it

Please implement a "relabel_empty" feature similar to relabel_scratch, VTLs need it. With the "relabel_empty" feature cartridges will be relabeled when they are assigned the status of EMPTY again after being freed up. The write from begin of tape,...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Whitelist IP/Subnet for VADP/VSNAP NFS mounts

Ability to whitelist IP/Subnet for inbound NFS mounts. Customers who use NAT/masquerade clients on different subnets reach timeouts when attempting to mount shares due to the client IP mismatched from the NAT IP, assuming entries listed within /et...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Restore Functionality - Enable the recovery of VMs as an orchestrated group

Enable the recovery of VMs as a group i.e. Consistency Group or restore group for orchestration What is meant here is the ability to recover VMs in a ordered or orchestrated fashion i.e. I have 3 servers to recover an AD server, a SQL server and a...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus VADP proxy transport modes reset during code updates

During code updates, VADP proxy transport modes get reset to default - SAN, Hot-Add, NBDSSL and NBD
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

IBM Backup, Recovery and Media Services (BRMS) for i and Tivoli Storage Manager for IBM i

I've a client in Moçambique that would like to back an Exictos-Promosoft Financial Suite on an IBM iSeries box (aka AS400's) using TSM V7.1 or later. Could you let me know if this is possible and how the client can do this. The client also has oth...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Support of enhanced DAR for EMC and NetApp filer

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21223572Restoring file(s) on a network-attached storage (NAS) file server is much faster than restoring a directory. Enhanced DAR (Direct Access Recovery) for directories provided by NetApp or EMC f...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

OSSM Proxy on the same server as SP OSSM Server

currently on VSNAP servers we have the ability to also run the vadp proxy on the same server. with OSSM this is not possible. we need to have separate proxies as using the SP OSSM server as a OSSM proxy doesnt work. having separate vm proxies requ...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Provide TSM Client for Ubuntu s390x zLinux

Please provide a TSM Client (Spectrum Protect Client) installer for Ubuntu on s390x
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

make copies of existing Backupsets: either to go from Lto2 to lto4 media; and/or make duplicates for redundancy/DR issues!

make copies of existing backupsets to move the backupset from LTO2 to LTO4 tape media; to have reduntant backupsets(DR reasons) without having to issue the backupset command twice since the available creation time will not allow entering the same ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration