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Storage Protect Family

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Bug in Spectrum Protect - LDAP timout issues stop the SP server starting

When starting the Spectrum Protect/TSM server it goes through the startup procedures.Part of this startup checks the LDAP connections.If the LDAP connection times out, then the SP server fails to start.The RFE is that if the LDAP fails then the SP...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Backup catalog/database to different site

Have the possibility to backup the catalog and SPP database to another site as the SPP server. Example, we backup now everuthing to the primary site. But for disaster recovery it would be nice to have the possibility to backup the catalogs (and SP...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

CentOS support for the use of Spectrum Protect for Space Management component under Spectrum Archive

Requires the support of Spectrum Protect for Space Management function in CentOS environment, for the use of this component under Spectrum Archive.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 0 Delivered

Support for SP container pool storage tiering in SPP

For customers performing storage tiering between directory and cloud container pools within SP, they would like to SPP to be aware and support this functionality. For now data that has been tiered affect the primary source pool and prevent it from...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

SPP patches released should contain readme for changes and fixes included with patch level

A customer who was instructed to apply SPP patch 1 (287) inquired as to the fixes or changes within patch 1 and was not able to locate a readme file with a list of changes for these patches. This readme or list of documented changes will help a cu...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

SPP vSnap Storage Utilization report needs to run Storage Server Inventory Job automatically

When the Spectrum Protect Plus Reporting generates a report for vSnap Storage Utilization it does not use the vSnap Storage statistics from the moment the report is generated. Instead it uses the statistics of the last run of the Storage Server In...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

SP Protect Plus support for backing up DB installed in power LPARS

to accelerate the SP Protect plus adoption in customers is required that the product be able to backup DataBases running in Power AIX Logical Partitions.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Backup of NSX-T network interfaces in SP for VE

Spectrum Protect for VE needs to include VMware NSX virtual networking devices in the backups of the VMs. NSX is becoming a widely used virtual network infrastructure for VMware, which is configured via tagging of virtual NIC devices to a VM.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

retenrule with individual filespaces

The new feature retention rule does not allow to define individual filespaces for an BA/aR Client.This parameter is only supported for vm backups.The feature retention rule / retention sets should be an alternative to the backupsets.The backupset ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

HUB scalability

This is a request to improve the parallelization of spoke data ingest and processing on hub servers. There appears to be a single-threaded component, or some sort of processing bottleneck.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Delivered

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