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SPP - Change Message "CTGGA2192" from Error to Warning

Change Message "CTGGA2192: No volumes were replicated because there were no new snapshots. Please ensure that the backup completed successfully and the frequency of the Replication is less than the backup frequency." from Error to Warning. If ther...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

The problem of ANE4007E in your case is because you try to backup CITRIX files with a Reparse Tag IO_REPARSE_TAG_CITRIX_PM (

We are not able to backup user profiles for windows server that belongs to citrix environement.Refer IBM case id for etailed information about case and let me kow if more information needed for thia case.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Support for Spectrum Protect Container Storage Pools Greater Than 1PiB

Currently, container storage pools have a limit of 1PiB per Protect server. For backing up very large environments (such as Spectrum Scale), this can lead to a proliferation of Protect servers, increasing the complexity of the solution.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Administraive user on Filer

for clustured-data ONTAP NetApp filers, the only capability that is required is ontaoapi with the admin role
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

TS7700 Option to select any or all Cache Partitions to be Cache only

Within the TS7700T we have the option of create CP1 - CP7 (CP0 is cache only). When defining a new Cache Partition I would like to have the option of selecting if a Cache Partition is Cache w/tape or Cache Only. We would also like this option for ...
over 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

2 factor authentication in the IBM Spectrum Protect Server (TSM)

As a safety factor, we now have the 2FA (2 factor authentication) issue. An example is DUO installed on aix machines.For the TSM Server application do you have something planned for this?If so, what is the forecast for the product?
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus support for TLS1.2 for VMware v6.0

Currently, TLS1.2 is supported for vSphere6.5+. Request for TLS1.2 support for VMware vSphere v6.0 for SPP v10.1.1.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Allow multi-threaded backups/archive/expire via FileList methodology

Currently, we lose any multi-threading when we use the FileList parameter. The request is to allow multiple files to be specified, which can be handled by multiple threads (up to a specific maximum, when would then process the files in order but s...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Central Storage Managment console for SVC / Vxxxx Storage

Provide a Central Management Console, like XIV GUI, for SVC and Vxxxx Storage
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Issue an alert for less physical capacity

This idea is related to SCSI-I-1160. "Auto stop of Write operation against oops" may be too difficult, so I'll submit another idea. The customer encountered oops (Out of Physical Space) on FlashSystem 900 AE3 under V7000. The customer request...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration