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Storage Protect Family

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Improve disk to tape data migration by allowing multiple threads to read data from disk in parallel

Spectrum Protect (SP) server data migration performance from disk to tape is limited by the data throughput reading data from disk. In this situation the SP server was reading data from disk (flash) with about 90MB/sec.The SP server internal instr...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

Ubuntu on s390x support for Spectrum Project Client

Originally requested in 2019 and was marked for future consideration, IBM support Ubuntu on s390x Linux on Z however does not provide a backup client for Spectrum on an IBM platform s390x Linux on Z.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

Customization of LDAP authentication in Spectrum Protect software

When using Spectrum Protect Plus with LDAP authentication, the group parameter that is queried is hard coded (objectClass=group).This objectClass "group" is not present on all LDAP servers.Please allow customization of group attribute (like object...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

It would be good to have an automated way for taking care of acfs file system backups

TSM does not currently support acfs file systems (even though they can be backed up as "regular" file systems and as long as they are specifically declared as domains in the dsm.sys file (or elsewhere). We are currently facing a scenario where our...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Be able to set default throttle or multiple throttle schedules (business hours or weekends, for example)

This request is to have the ability of creating different throttle schedules, or setting a default throttle.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

VADP Proxy selection should be more intelligent

During VMware backup VADP Proxies are selected by site and load, or you can assign a specific proxy (by name or site) to a VM that it should use for backup in the VM options.In larger environments we have defined multiple vcenters to a single gui,...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Node Replication for NDMP Node

Node Replication for NDMP Node feature in not available in Spectrum Protect Server
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

AWS EC2 Snapshot replication and copy

Allow an AWS EC2 snapshot to be ingested by SPP's repository and the ability of creating other copies, using replication and copy/offload features.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

New Client Option to force backup by file attribute change

Configuration: Linux/UNIX Filesystem B/A Client Problem: After a chmod or chown command on a file, it is not possible to go back to the state before customers change when a new file backup was made. Because only the attribute in the DB was...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

SPP: Progress bar for Replication & Archive

Currently ISPP only shows a working progress bar for Backups. For Jobs like Replication and Cloud Offload the bar stays at 0% until the end and then jumps to 100%.This is a problem when monitoring tasks and trying to get a rough estimate how long ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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