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Storage Protect Family

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Fix Label Libvolume to report failure when encountering errors instead of failing to work yet reporting Success.

Label Libvolume processes can encounter errors but report Completed Successfully
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Spectrum Protect server should be able to display what clients are sending 'pre-deduplicated' data

either in operations center, or with a simple select statement, it should be possible to display if a client is actually sending deduplicated data to the Spectrum protect server.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Spectrum Protect Disk Migration single thread

In a disk storage pool with only 1 node the migration process from Disk to tape is single threaded. The only way today around this is to use File device classes. We would prefer not to use File devices classes as these add other overheads. There i...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Delivered

XLS output from scheduled VM Backup history report

Scheduled report which is sending by e-mail is not possible to generate it in XLS format. It is normally possible to chose between xls and pdf format by instant (not scheduled) report run only.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

How to stop Hyper-V from using the 'Data ONTAP VSS Hardware Provider' to run VM snapshots.

We have backup server with windows 2012r2 and we install IBM SPECTRUM PROTECT SERVER 8.1.6 we have hyper-v 2012 r2 with 12 hosts with cluster , we install ibm spectrum protect for hyper-v 8.1.6 the backup work with 'Data ONTAP VSS Hardware Provide...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Delivered

Immutable feature on Object storage

We would like to keep the backup data that we copied on cloud as immutable.This means that the data will remain indelible for the period we set.Thus, we can protect our data from attacks such as hackers who intentionally want to delete them.Spectr...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Delivered

Estimated end time and update process indicator at the first start after update

When the Spectrum Protct Server is updated, db2 table schemas are updated frequently. This can could take a long time to be usable the first time it is started after the update. Unfortunately, you don't see a progress bar and you can't foresee whe...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Operations Center - add activity log details for server maintenance

Customer would like to have the ability to view related Spectrum Protect server activity log records pertaining to server maintenance activities reported in the Operations Center. As of now, the OC reports little more than success/failure.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Delivered

Spectrum Protect Server Startup on Linux SystemD unit file

Would like a SystemD unit file for the SP server startup. Current process uses SystemV init script which runs from a user slice which inherently do not have access to all system resources. Running the application from a SystemD unit file would use...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Missed and failed ANR messages do not display the actual hostname and of the node on all platforms.

Missed and failed ANR messages do not display the actual hostname and of the node on all platforms. ANR2579E Schedule schedule name in domain domain name for node node name failed (return code return code ). ANR2578W Schedule schedule name in doma...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Delivered

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