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Storage Protect Family

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would like a ballance stgpooldir command

This occurs when adding directories for added space to a spectrum protect container. The existing directories are very full, and the newly added directories remain very empty. There is no balancing of data across the newly added and existing direc...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Query files content of a container

Be able do list the files stored in directory/cloud container.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Restore VM to the max. possible configuration in case of any issues detected instead to force restore only to minimal config

We have now experienced several situations where VM's were restored with only a minimal configuration because of problems (e.g. maximum number of available ports in port group was reached, unrecognized new parameters in VM config etc.). For furthe...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Restart failed backup

SPP should provide the option to restart backups and try again to protect failed VMs of the previous run.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Disable ransomware alert for specific nodes

Ransomware detection is always on, and cannot be disabled. Every login has a pink banner because 5 nodes are never near their long-term average for size and dedupe ratio.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Planned for future release

move retention data from one storage pool to another

It's not currently possible to move retention data from one storage pool to another. It is possible to move retention data to different volumes in the same storage pool. LTO9 tape volumes. That said, this might be a little more difficult to do wit...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 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...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 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.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

OSSM master encyption key needs to be protected from loss

If the OSSM master encyption key is lost, the protected data stored on the IBM Storage Protect server cannot be recovered for the IBM Storage Protect Plus client. The product needs a better resiliency mecanism to avoid the loss of that key.
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

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