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Change QUERY OCCUPANCY to show the number of files backed up for each node/filespace in a directory container storage pool.

Currently QUERY OCCUPANCY returns the number of 10GB fragments associated with each file/object. So if a file is 54GB in size it will report this under QUERY OCCUPANCY six files; where five fragments occupy 10GB, and one as 4GB. As a customer the ...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Hyperswap - estimator showing time running with failed communication

It would be nice to have command showing estimated time based on current and historical data transfer for which communication between sites can be broken till free space would be exhaused.
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

In clustered (HA) environments, Spectrum Protect should support installing interim fixes without downtime

We are using Spectrum Product for Data Retention in a document centric application step, that serves access to contract statements over the web in an always on environment. Maintenance (major version or scheduled FP upgrade) is expected to be deli...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

More granularity for Retention Rule

To be able to choose directory(ies) in Retention Rule to have more flexibility. Most of the time, needs are to create a retention set on specific directory, not all the filespace.SP well know all the backed up directories and files from a node. Th...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

TS7700 Set LVOL to non used state for removing a TMC range of tapes

The customer wants a way to set a volser or a range of volsers to a TMC Delete state so that the volume will not being mounted as a scratch in preparation to remove the volser or range.
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 4 Planned for future release

Ability to set a warning message when the TS7700 premigration queue utilization reaches certain % of the licensed TB.

There is no ability to set an alert to warn the end user that the premigration capacity utilization is at certain percentage of the licensed premigration TB. Having this ability will allow the end user to take a more pro-active action to prevent t...
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

SPP GUI integrated in SP OC

if SPP Vsnap will have a direct integration with SP, GUIs should also be integrated. This integration could be show as only one product with different features.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Save the last copy

We have seen scenarios where VMware Virtual Machines just disrepair out from vCenter because of VMX file has been corrupted, or has been deleted of mistake.And because of the server or service hasn't been that important or been used that offend. W...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Analoga to QUERY OCCUPANCY

For Nodes with complex data structure is often not enough to get information at the end of dsmc q ba "Path_to_objects/*" -subdir=yes -ina -querysummary with Total Data etc. More detailed aggregated information with backup/archive data amount and n...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Enable text based output from Rest API

Rest API query for license usage comes out as pdf, excel or html. These are not well suited to import to other systems for automation. I would like the output as text, like csv file.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Future consideration

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