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Storage Protect Family

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ISPP - reduce required free space in VG for DB2 backup

Currently when protecting db2 with ISPP you need to have 20% free space in the VG containing the DB2 database to accommodate the LV snapshots taken during ISPP DB2 backup. This additional storage requirement increases backup costs which can add up...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow larger than 256 KiB blocks while accessing tape devices

As by TS009588298 we have performance issue while accessing tape drives, and using a larger block size (e. g. 2 Mebibytes instead of the now maximum 256 KiB) is improving performance a lot. This would even make it possible for us to backup the SP-...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SP Plus - Start Copy job/replication job when Main policy is complete

Possibility to define in a SLA that a "Additional Copy" or "Replication" Should only begin when the "Primary" job is no longer running.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect (TSM) client for Space Management (HSM) for ppc (power) Linux

With the evolution of Spectrum Scale (esp. ESS) running on our ppc Hardware on Linux it is required to have this capability to reduce the number of objects to manage (i.e. an extra AIX or x86 system to handle the HSM migration out of ESS or other ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Not under consideration

Verify Management Class Contraints on Node Migration

When moving/migrating a TSM node from one TSM domain to another, and in the target TSM domain the management class used in the source does not exist in its policiy definitions, the default management class is used. The fall back to the default man...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

File Level Restore Enhancements

Requests from customer to improve the File Level Restore recovery capability in SPP and add the following: 1) Add an include list as well as an exclude list under VM options > select options 2) Collect data for and add a date modified field so ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Progress bar for Node Replication

My customer needs a progress indicator, how much data have already been replicated. At the moment, there is no progress bar in the Operations Center ? There are the PMRs: TS001082298, TS000931890, TS000896249
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Allow "restriced" Account for Hypervisor Inventory

Today it is required a) to create an account for the communication between the Spectrum Protect Plus appliance and the VMware vCenterb) assign permissions for that account within the vCenter "top down" from the vCenter level including inheritance ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add possibility to choose SPP GUI communication IP when deploying VADP proxy

When having multiple IPs for SPP GUI / VADP proxys, it's not possible to choose the communication IP for the VADP proxys to communicate with the SPP GUI host.This is only possible by accessing the VADP server itself and running a script "update_va...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus file level restore sudo previleges

Hi IBM, We are trying to enable file level restore on SPP and we are following the below URL.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spp/10.1.8?topic=requirements-file-indexing-restore One of the pre-rquisite is to enable superuser privileges for the agent us...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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