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Storage Protect Family

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SPP physical server Filesystem backup support problem

Need a lot of improvement backing File System backups
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add backup storage reporting on TSM Policy Domain level to TSM Operation Center

Enhancing TSM Operation Center with of view of backup storage per Policy Domain. This would allow backup administrators to understand better their storage growth based on their organizational structure. Furthermore it supports the usage of TSM Pol...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

SCDM - Re-use SSH sessions for IBM SVC Storage

Spectrum Copy Data Management creates new SSH sessions when running SVC CLI commands. Each CLI commands requires opening an SSH session and once the CLI command completes, closing the SSH session. Instead of opening a new SSH session for every CLI...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

implement a call like dsmPing() to keep sessions alive

Sessions on the Spectrum Protect server gets terminiated due to inactivity timeout, even though there are still a running backup on the client. The backup process that are scanning for changed blocks can sometimes take long time.For example DB2 in...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Add root cause Db2 messages to job log in SPP

When a DB2 restore job in SPP fails, the DB2 message including the root cause of this failure is not shown in the job log. And therefore not on the ISPP gui itself. For finding the cause why the job failed, you need to logon to the ISPP server, di...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Session status failed -99 received before schedule duration not ended

Hello, Description: Please be informed that when some SP client is reboot (Because OS patching) during the backup, SP server report event "failed -99". 6/12/24, 22:23:34 ANR0480W Session 2335563 for node [Node_name] (Linux x86-64) terminated - con...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Display of Servers --> Maintenance tasks history improvement

Tasks which run into the next day are shown in the history as running and not finished. The history seems to only check the job in one day. It should check the process id for the finished or aborted status. Also it would be helpful to see the dura...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

dont perform a FULL backup of all vmdks if only one vmdk is resized

Resizing of the VMware VM disk will trigger a reset of the CBT data of that specific disk. This causes a FULL backup of the entire VM. Not only the resized disk will be backed up fully, but all other disks too.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus File level Restores

Spectrum Protect Plus Restoration and cataloging not very user friendly.It would be nice if you can select and tick the folders and files you want restored. similar to Spectrum Protect (TSM) & Backup Exec and other backup software.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Litigation Hold Property on File Spaces.

Provide an ability to prevent expiration processing to occur for a file space when a node becomes part of a "Litigation Hold" issue. The status of enabled would over-ride expiration processing of files/folders in the file space. Microsoft Exchange...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

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