IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Monthly daily SPP backup report

    For a given month (or period) provide daily SPP backup status (success, failed, undone). Provides single view to compute the backup SLA commonly used in outsourcing engagement.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    SSH ACCESS

    Could you please provide SSH access in order to automatize some operations like backup of the conf ?
    over 2 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    File restore GUI: Microsoft Windows user account cannot access its own user folders

    When using File Restore GUI to restore single files to a Windows vm you get an access denied error when trying to restore files and folders protected by UAC. This can be profile folders (C:\Users) or the DATA folder in a SQL instance. The problem ...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    add support for PowerHA AIX cluster configuration for File system backup and restore

    DCU (Customer) did a CDM snapshot across the 2 AIX servers. Then a situation came up where they had a need to do a restore and it failed with the exception “com.catalogic.ecx.ibmsvcprovider.exception.IBMSVCExecCommandException: CMMVC9071E: Cannot ...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

    IBM Spectrum Protect for VE-Remove 8 TB VMDK snapshot backup Restriction or Extend snapshot backup of VMDK from 8TB to 64 TB

    We would like to have IBM enhance IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments product and remove this restriction/limitation to fail the snapshot backup of VMDK which is grater then 8 TB in size. We would like to have IBM remove this limitation/...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    OpenStack back-up with Spectrum Protect

    Customer VW (Volkswagen) Financial Services (VWFS) is in charge for managing the cloud solution for the entire VW corporation, which is based on OpenStack.VWFS is a loyal IBM Spectrum Protect customer. VWFS approached us with the request for a bac...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    VMware Linux File-Level Restore Using Active Directory Domain Login ID

    VMware Linux File-Level Restores does not allow for Microsoft Active Directory Domain based User Logins with Multifactor Authentication.
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Utilization percentage of areas used by the product to store indexes should be displayed in the main product GUI. Not displaying this in a simple and readily available form can result in granular recoveries not being possible

    If the utilization for the areas containing the lucern database (/data3 by default) was displayed within the main GUI it would be much simpler to keep track of issues that may affect recovery options further down the line. This would benefit all b...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Exchange 2010 Single Item Recovery from the Exchange mailbox database

    We are using Spectrum Protect Server: Spectrum Protect Server EE Version 7.1.8.1 OS Version Windows 2012 R2 Standard Exchange Server / Client Side: BA Client Version 7.1.1 FlashCopy Manager for Exchange Version: 4.1.1.0 TDP for Mail Version 7.1.1 ...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

    Backup VM process uses too much memory

    The IFINCR backup VM job uses too much memory when processing guests especially in the initial phase when querying for previous backups images stored on the Spectrum Protect server.
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

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