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VMDK size limit for spectrum protect for ve backups (vmware)

Increase vmdk size limit which is currently 8TB
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under 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

ESS Support VDC 270 Power input

For higher energy conversion efficiency, the datacentor is constructed with dual DC power inputs. Doing so is more environmentally friendly and reduces carbon emissions. Our datacentor construction is all dual-channel high-voltage DC, and will con...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 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

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

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

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus - Oracle DB support on Windows

Small customers use Windows platform for Oracle DB's and current support is only for Oracle DB running on Linux. SPP in not suitable for them and cases are lost. Veeam has such support.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Support for Domino Protect for Mail (TDP) for Ubuntu

Domino is supported on a range of Linux operating-systems. But this requires also backup solutions to be available for those Linux platforms. Domino on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is getting more and more attraction and should be supported b TDP.
8 months ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Under review

Add Broadcom SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in Scale ECE

One of OEM partners are planning to replace existing SAS 3108 HBA with SAS 3808/3908 HBAs. But we didn't find SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in the support list of ECE 5.1.9. The partner hope IBM can support SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in the next release. They can pr...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

provide SPP micro-agent installation packages

Customer organization has separation of responsibilities such that pushing micro-agents (specifically file-level indexing micro-agent) is onerous and time consuming. In similar cases in their organization, an agent installation package (including ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration