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Storage Protect Family

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vsnap storage migration from EOS/EOL Backend storage to new storage on same vsnap

We have no approved solution to migrate the attached LUNs on a vsnap server to new LUNs on same vsnap server. We need that if backend storage is going EOL/EOS. Currently there is only one solution and this is to create new vsnap server with new LU...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Allow custom configuration of ciphers used by a Spectrum Protect server for TLS connections

Spectrum Protect servers use TLS for incoming client and administrative sessions over the netowrk. An incoming TLS connection is offered a number of ciphers to use for the TLS connection by the Spectrum Protect server. Whilst this list of ciphers ...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Change mail-function for OC and reports, email support for user/password

Open relay mailserver is not a common way anymore inside organisations to handle mail. I need support (new feature / way to handle mail) for operation center for reports which supports user/password and connections to non open relay mailservers al...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Increase history from 2 weeks to a longer (per choice) period of time.

2 weeks are to short for history for clients and servers where customers often asks for changes that happened maybe 1-2 months ago. Espicially when it comes to "what happened / why did my storage grow last month" but also in regards of SP server s...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Migration of Backup-Jobs between SPP MasterServers

Export/Import of specific SLA's, Nodes, Backups incl. all necessary data from SPP Server1 to Server2 (e.g. new install SPP or existing installations) on node level on SLA level on backup job (SnapShot) level
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

Opject Agent support for AIX

Text from following link:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.7/srv.admin/t_object_agent_client_aix.html An IBM Spectrum Protect object agent cannot run directly on an IBM AIX operating system. However, you can offload IBM Spectr...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Enhancements to the Operations Center reporting

The company is building executive reports using Spectrum Protect Operations Center. They have over 6000 nodes doing backups in 19 Spectrum Protect servers and management would like to have a view of some statistics for the whole environment. Today...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

SPP Container backup support unsupported storage class exclusion

We wish to have a better exclusion feature for currently unsupported storage classes.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for restoring concurrent vg

There are some insignificant errors during OS restore with concurrent vg via NIM Resource Boot. “0516-1305 chvg: This command is not allowed while volume group sapbinvg is concurrent capable”“0516-1300 chpv: -h option is not allowed for hdisk3 bec...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Is a defect

Enhancment to replicate node commando to only replicate nodes in send or sendsync mode

I try to create setups without and errors or warnings from housekeeping scripts.I also try to work with opt-out mechanisms as much as possible for customers that agree to use that backup philosophy. When you build a two-way replicating Spectrum Pr...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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