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Storage Protect Family

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Support IBM S3 interfaces provided by IBM products on SPP+

The only supported S3 interface from IBM is "IBM CLOUD SORAGE". Technote 1087149 lists the "s3 compatible storage providers" and there is not ONE product listed there from IBM. Spectrum Protect, and Spectrum Scale come to mind, but I am SURE there...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow client migration from VSNAP to OSSM and back again

Currently to migrate a client from OSSM to Vsnap storage requires deleting ALL recovery points for that client. This is worse than migrating to a different backup vendor. I have NO backups for that client simply because I want to change my backend...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Since Repository server will not allow SPP+ Catalog backup , support "S3 Compatible on TSM server", Then backup Catalog to S3 on TSM.

I have an open PMR because I already have TSM with a tape based Disaster recovery solution because I have no networked second site to use as a DR capability. We are not Internet connected with these systems, which removes typical S3 DR solutions, ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Global Preferences Option to ignore alerts for skipped RDM and independent disks

Currently if a backup job runs and a VM has RDMs or independent disks these flag an error and are skipped and the job is marked as partial rather than completed so flags alerts in the dashboard. A customer has asked for this to be an option in glo...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Do not register mount proxy nodes in configuration wizard

After installation, the Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments GUI needs to be configured. URL: https://localhost:9081/TsmVMwareUI/ If the GUI is called for the first time, the Configuration Wizard automatically starts. At the definition of the...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

If the CLI option /configfile points to non existent file the tdpsqlc command should end in error..

If we have in a sqlfull.bat script: tdpsqlc backup * full /configfile=someconfig.cfg and the file "someconfig.cfg" does not exist, the command runs along with default config and returns with rc=0. Problem with that is if "somconfig.cfg" once exist...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Is a defect

Changes for ISP Server/Client

Will there be an Systemd-Daemon file one day for better controlling of the system processes of the ISP software?Because the ISP server and client software haven't yet an native systemd-daemon and are using still the old SysV-Init-Daemon files whic...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Pick a backup to offload in a cloud object storage or SP as archive

Hello support, I would like to know if it is possible to pick a backup that i want to offload in a cloud object storage or SP.We can define a SLA to to it as a politic. But the goal is to do it in onetime. example:do an incremental backup every da...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

SP server output file ownership/permissions

SP can output several types of files. For example, DRM recovery plans, backing up devconfig or volhist, select command output, etc. We can already control where to direct the output, i.e., directory structure and filename. Having the ability to al...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Bind management classes according to file size

Currently management classes are assigned by the backup archive client and are based solely on directories names and/or files names.In some cases, it might be better to assign a management class to a file size range.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

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