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    Add /var/spool/clientmqueue to logrotate

    HMC2 was unable to backup critical data or send emails due to writes to /var were failing with "[No space left on device]". The cause of this was because /var was completely out of inodes as a result of /var/spool/clientmqueue had accumulated over...
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Enable a search field for select a Virtual Machines into the IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments console.

    Having a several vcenters, and into each Vcenter a huge among of virtual machines, it is hard to find one a VM to selected it to backup. We waste of time looking for these VMs, when we do not know which Vcenter it belong, so we need to display all...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    set disableDeduplication = bTrue for DSM_OBJ_DIRECTORY objects

    Clarification of API document regarding client side deduplication, and that this has to be disabled for driectory type of objects objAttrArea.disableDeduplication = bTrue;objName.objType = DSM_OBJ_DIRECTORY; Or better; update the API so that clien...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

    DECOM / DEACTIVATE by future date

    Requesting DECOMM VM, DECOMM NODE and/or DEACTIVATE commands be enhanced to allow specifying a future date. This could be parsed during EXPIRE, or possibly some other operation that gives more notice. Alternatively, if DEACTIVATE could be modified...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    Use Storwize disk systems as SVC/Storwize IP quorum instance

    Can you enable Storwize disk systems to act as quorum IP instance - as additional optional solution how to create an IP quorum ?Use the standard IP management of the Storwize systems to connect to the related SVC- or Storwize HyperSwap clusters.
    about 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Tag/Label backup sessions as well as backup/archive records.

    Because of the Spectrum Protect way to register the backups/archive, it is challenging to track the backups.  For example, when customers lunch a multi-thread backup (DB, Files, Mail, VM), it is difficult to identify what kind of backup it is...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

    support for openzfs on linux

    Please add native support for backing up the openzfs on linux filesystem. OpenZFS on linux is used quite extensively at the national labs. Current workaround options to get by such as using virtualmountpoints are unwieldy. pools may have a large n...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect AD LDAP enhancement for multiple AD domains

    As of now Spectrum Protect can authenticate against single AD domain. However, we have Spectrum protect administrators from multiple different regions around the globe and administrators from each region have AD account on their own AD domain. For...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Change warning message to information message

    In TSM for VE 7.1 the warning message "ANS4063W" is triggering an RC 8 return code on the scheduled event. We would like the warning message changed to an information message instead.
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    DB Backup Requirements

    Design of DB Backup of ISP is not optimal. One of Requirements for DB Backup is "free 8GB" on Actlog and Mirrorlog partitions for temporary operations.For Actlog and Mirrorlog will be used expensive storage and parts of them can be used only for f...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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