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Provide OC / SP error that will notify us when server instance crash or hang

Is there an OC / SP error that will notify us when dsmserv is down (db2 is either down or up) and, notify us when an instance appears to be hung? IF that can be produced later on that would be a great advantage to keep administrators ahead with an...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Support for SLES 15 using Spectrum Protect DP for HANA

I need a statement of support for DP for ERP SAP HANA on SLES 15
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Planned for future release

IBM Spectrum virtulize should generate alert before rebuilding of a failed disk

One of our customer have large infrastructure of IBM Storage deployed ,where IBM FS 840 /FS 900 / SVC / IBM V7000 / IBM FS 9150 / IBM FS 9200 installed across India. Although we have call home configured and working for all devices , fault like di...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

mmbackup enhancements

mmbackup has no support of application that generate the Content of the same file with a temporary file, and if finish renamed these temp file to original name. SAS-Institute with the *.sas7bdat.lck as temp and *.sas7bdat as original filename are ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

SPP| exclude single folder from VM snapshot backup

In SPP for VM snapshot base backup, exclude single folder from VM snapshot backup. End user want to exclude there application/DB folder (one/more than one folder or particular extension for file like .mdf,.ldf)
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Cancel process ALL

Add extra Cancel Process options - Cancel Process ALL- Cancel pro migration (or cancel migration)- Cancel pro backup (or cancel backup) For each process name a Cancel command. Cancel Expiration and Cancel Export already exists.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Restore are very slow

Querying of Exchange backups is very slow in a large environments. E.g. in environment with 100+ Exchange mailbox databases and 200 backups per each it take nearly 3 hours. This causes that restores are terribly slow.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

Option "Skipmissingsyswfiles" to be allowed in the Client Options Set

The "Skipmissingsyswfiles" option is needed to stop SP/TSM from skipping system state files that will be needed for a "Bare Metal Restore" (BMR). Currently this option can only be set in the DSM.OPT file. We want to be able to set this option in t...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Support for GPFS Immutable Fileset to be used from NFS exports

GPFS 3.5 and higher has built-in capabilities providing the SnapLock function to make files immutable (WORM protected). This function is based on immutable file sets but it not supported. SnapLock essentially allows to make file immutable using st...
about 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect should not backup vSPhere vCLS VMs

The vCLS VMs should be fully ignored by Spectrum Protect for vSphere. IBM support could not help with the problem, but recommended me to submit an RFE for this.See:https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc/GU...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

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