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Disable scan of files before archiving when using filelist

We have been archiving with file lists for over 20 years, so we know that the client archived differently and, above all, faster in earlier versions (5-7). If you specified a file list in these old versions, archiving started within a few seconds,...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

IBM Storage Ceph alerting, reporting, and probe frequency

Alex manages the Kyndryl team that supports FedEx Ground, a very significant IBM i and FlashSystem and DSI client. We are implementing Ceph as Long Term archive backend for the DSI Virtual Tape Library and the Kyndryl team needs to be able to moni...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

double library libTsmViSdk.so / unnecessary space usage

We noticed that the libTsmViSdk.so library is included into the TIVsm-API64 and TIVSM-BA package: bash-4.4$ find /opt/tivoli/ -name libTsmViSdk.so /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/api/bin64/libTsmViSdk.so /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/libTsmViSdk.so bash-4....
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Support for SQL Express

Today SQL Express is not supported. But there is no reason for why. It has all the functionality as the FULL sql, except limits on CPU and RAM. Backups works fine etc. The only part that will not work today is the mmc gui that wont complete its co...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

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 ...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

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...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Add host_unmap option in the auto config wizard

In case we have Flash system behind SVC storage and we are running the wizard of auto config for virtualization - it is important also to add option to configure host_unmap.since by default the wizard does not change the default value.host_unmap o...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Please add ACME Client for TSSC

Most if not all companies no longer allow Self-Signed Certs on their network. Most if not all organizations are requiring 90 day, 180 day or 365 Day certificate renewals. On TSSC this is a cumbersome task .. especially for 90 day cert renewals. A ...
7 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Under review

Change the IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Microsoft SQL Server autoselect to select backups prior to the backup endtime, instead of the backups prior to the backup starttime

The LSN (Log Sequence Number) checkpoint is created when an SQL backup concludes. This can lead to the autoselect function in IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Microsoft SQL Server, selecting a log backup between the Difffuls or Full backups start...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

Storage Rule Exclude Function

Today when you create a Storage Rule Replication you can either assign all nodes or exclude all nodes and then create a subrule and include/exclude specific nodes. In our case do we have a 2 Sites solution where we replicate data between sites, th...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

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