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Storage Protect Family

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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
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

VM move from one VC to another schould be recognized by SPP

In large and grown VMware environments it can happen that VMs have to be moved from one virtual center to the next in the same cluster. With Virtual Centers that have existed for many years, VMware Support may recommend installing a new VC and mov...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Support tiering from cloud to directory container storage pools

Currently, SP only supports tiering data from a directory container storage pools to cloud container storage pools. Once your data has moved to the cloud, you won't be able to move it back. The only way to do this is by destroying (!) your data in...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Allow pending glacier protocol requests automatic clean up on SP server for failed or aborted restores

Design of the code needs to clean up automatically on the SP server left over glacier restore requests coming from Spectrum Protect Plus when the client (here SPP) has failed or the user cancelled the active restore process.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

HTTP banner in DSMCAD Spectrum Protect client

When scanning open ports of servers, the port 1581 (default, or configured by "httpport" in dsm.opt) answers with the string "Server: TSM_HTTP/0.1".This might be a security issue, as an attacker could see, which software is (TSM / Spectrum Protect...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Tape optimized inline copy on filelist backup for HSM managed filesystems

We have a IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) file system which is HSM managed using the IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management client. In addition we are using the IBM Spectrum Protect backup/archive client to backup those data, driven by the mmbackup t...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future 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

Access to all functions in SPP through WAN using SSL

It is possible to connect to some of the functions in the SPP server GUI, but not all of them. E.g: accessing the Policy Overview page. The GUI tries to access the public IP address / host name from inside the firewall, and this causes the problem.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

add fromdate/todate option to the command "delete backup <vm> -objtype=vm "

the fromdate / todate option is available for many delete backup commands but not for -objtype=vm We had cases where the expire inventory did not cleanup the vm backups ( when using replicate node ) , in order to fix this , we have to use the dele...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Avoid dropping instance while upgrade

Upgrading to current IBM Spectrum Protect Version drops instance during installation in silent mode although settings in responsefile to not touch/update the DB were set.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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