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Storage Protect Family

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Add Support for Windows Directory Junction Links / symbolic links

We "extend" disks by creating Symbolic Links using Microsoft Windows mklink.exe command. i.e.mklink /j f:\DataF\Departments\CofE-PD\PRJ\Projects\2020 k:\Data\Departments\CofE-PD\PRJ\Projects\2020 This will Create a directory junction f:\DataF\Depa...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

starting SLA dialog not enough information

When you manually start an SLA, a "Start Options" dialog box pops up and you have to click "OK" to start the SLA, it would be nice if you can see which SLA (the name of the SLA) you are starting... All you see is the words "SLA Policy" and a combo...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

Provide ISP Client Management Services also for Linux on Power LE

We use ISP CMS to rollout ISP Client configuration on our ISS Cluster systems. Now, besides x86 based ISS Clusters, we got our first IBM POWER LE based cluster and recognised that IBM does not ship ISP CMS for POWER LE. But we need CMS also on the...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Add equivalent of "issue message" command to DSMC, so it will be logged on client as well

Recently I answered an RFP question regarding different automation techniques, including the use of Issue Message dsmadmc command to send a message to the server activity log. I realized that this functionality would be enhanced if we could issue ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Choose wich disc to restore in Data Protection for Hyper-V

In Dataprotection for Hyper-V it would be very nice if we can choose wich disc to restore.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

support of AzureStack in Spectrum Protect Plus

we want to move our backups to cloud as 'second backup'. Our cloud provider offers AzureStack /pleAzureStack/, but in menu of Spectrum Protect plus is only Azure. Could you add support of AzureStack in some of near updates?
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

ANR2034E should be INFO and not ERROR

It's annoying that there's an error logged just because I ran query mount and nothing was mounted (maybe that was a good thing). This is how it currently looks on one of our servers, 184644 counts of ANR2034E, second place is 938. That's a lot of ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

SSD Cache for Archive backup extraction

we are using SP as a backup repository in order to archive backups from SPP to tape. during archive backup. the data is compress at the vsnap, stored to colddatacache pool and then migrated to tape on the SP server. the restoration process is the ...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

SPP File Restore GUI/Wizard

The steps for the VM FileRestore are not clear and simple enough according to the client.In a restore situation (always associated with stress), the customer has to know or consider too many things in order to perform the file restore. For example...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Export operations increased to 256kB blocksize

IBM labs has detected Export operations blocksize to be a performance bottleneck.All other tape operations are said to use 256kB blocksize whilst Export operations use 32kB blocksize. The request is to start using 256kB blocksize for Export operat...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

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