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DEACTIVATE FILESPACE

Based on the principle of new commands, DEACTIVATE and DECOMMISSION, which act on the nodes,we should be able to go down to the file system level.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

backup stgpool parallelization

I would request to have backup stgpool of a source pool of type=disk parallelized either on a per volume base (as backup stgpool acts if the source pool is of type=file) or on the amount of data to process. When running backup stgpool with a sourc...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

3 sites Support

Hi, we are receiving requirements about 3 Site Support. It is very necessary for our Customer. This a mandatory requirement from regulator.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TS7700 and IBM Security QRadar support

From level R5.1 (8.51.0.63), the name of the sender of the logs visible in the IBM Security QRadar software is for example :- LinuxServer @ 00323_78-H9952_ (example of TS7700 unit with the serial number of the 3957-VEx server) - LinuxServer @ Adre...
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Control and TS7700 (VTS)

Today, customer is managing around thirty TS7700 units. He does not have the possibility to easily check the configuration on each one to be sure that the configuration corresponds to their need. Also, in case of problem, it's very time consuming ...
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Planned for future release

Catalog file discovery results failed in VM Backup

SPP can run catalog file metadata on backup VM for different vLans networks.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

A setting or flag to prevent files from migrating if they are not yet replicated

Spectrum Protect is replicating file that have already been migrated to tape
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add completed timestamp on failed administrative events

Add "completed" timestamp to administrative events if the administrative schedule fails.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Prevent media with read/write errors to be reused

When a tape has a write error, it should not be reused when it has returned to scratch pool. We need some method to track media statistics across the life time of a tape, from all the SP host that has used the tape. Each SP server should send tape...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

New Vsphere TAG at VM level to specify scheduling priority

A new PRIORITY tag at vm level could be used to force the tdp4ve backup schedule to backup the vms in a desired sequence ( ex priority option from 0 to 100 ) default 100 , 0 highest priority 100 lowest priority. Customer are often requesting to ba...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

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