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Storage Protect Family

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Show various command line options and/or help options for dsmserv using -h or --help flag

The proposal is provide -h or --help option for storage protect server command line. Storage Protect Server can be started with various options. Currently the user has to go through SP documentation to know these options, as the command line does ...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Open Spectrum protect S3 agent for use by BRMS (iSeries)

The intent is to open up the S3 Agent for use by entities other than Spectrum Protect Plus. Target for this request is iSeries BRMS which is currently using S3 to send backup data to cloud.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Change mail-function for OC and reports, email support for user/password

Open relay mailserver is not a common way anymore inside organisations to handle mail. I need support (new feature / way to handle mail) for operation center for reports which supports user/password and connections to non open relay mailservers al...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Installation of kubernetes support componentes for ISP Plus from ISP Plus GUI

To install kubernetes backup support for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus access to Kubernetes Cluster node is required on the OS level via ssh.Several steps on the OS level are required to deploy the needed pods into the kubernetes environment.It would ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

VM File Indexing not available while Configuring VM using NVMe Disk Controller in SPP

While Configuring virtual machine using NVMe Disk Controller from VMware side. VM Backup is successful to IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. When using File Restore feature in SPP. File indexing is not available and this is happening because OS's are not ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

select to get damaged containers in OC reports

The command QUERY DAMAGED <STGPOOLNAME> type=container is nice in order to see any damaged containers, however in Operations Center Reporting it is not possible to do the same command and there is no equivalent select statement available as ...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 3 Future consideration

Create, modify & remove administative schedules

Create, modify & remove administative schedules from the Operation Center.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Reporting using VM Tagging

Customer would like to expand the SPP reporting by using VMware Tagging.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP CONTROL BACKUP BY DATASTORE THRESHOLD

In Spectrum Protect for VE, one can configure "VMDATASTORETHRESHOLD" in order to control if Snapshots/Backups will be processed in the Datastore level. e.g: VMDATASTORETHRESHOLD 90 means that the Hypervisor will not process any snapshot in a datas...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

Error handling for failed node replication - ANR1893E and ANR3824W

Since ISP 8.1.14 we always see this error messages in the log - and monitoring system - for node replication, because some files are skipped. The reason for the skipped files is, that database log backups always occur during the replication. This ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration