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Storage Protect Family

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more granular scheduling in Spectrum Protect OC Reports

The OC accepts only scheduled reports for daily or weekly. No Day of week or month nor time could be selected separately for each configured report.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

OC nodegroup handling

When dealing with node replication there is sometimes a need to group certain nodes in nodegroups i.e. for more frequent replication than for other nodes. I'd like to see a panel where one can create and display nodes grouped by nodegroup and also...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

SPP - Have tha ability to move data off of one vsnap to another.

Customer has asked for a way to do two items: 1) Recover from the loss of a vsnap server where the storage is still viable if mounted to another vsnap server. 2) As needed move data off of one vsnap server to another vsnap server.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

ARM support for Spectrum Protect client

The Jülich Supercompting Centre is running HPC compute resources for the European Science community. The storage solution is based of a central storage cluster which is mounted on ~8.000 compute nodes. The persistent data are backed up by Spectrum...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Future consideration

Allow wildcard patterns for node names in tiering rules

Support the usage of wildcard pattern for node names in storage tiering rules.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect OneDrive Support

IBM Spectrum Protect need to be able to protect data on Microsoft OneDrive. Our competition can do this today and customers have started asking if we can do this or not.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

SPP re-catalog from vSnap content (consistency audit)

Ability for SPP server to populate/crosscheck its catalog information based on Vsnap content. Just like an audit to ensure that everything that is stored on Vsnap is known in the catalog, plus the ability to register images found on vSnap which wo...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Column heading if " damadmc -COMMAdelimited"

am startingdsmadmc -TCPSERVERADDRESS=IP -tcpport=1500 -COMMAdelimited -id=MyID -password=(MyPassword) Is there a way to provide reasonable column header. I.e.Protect: TSMUNX04>q stat will provide next output ..... SrvName,,1500,On,Yes,2013.07.2...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Ability to export backup data from directory container Storage pool and mover node data from a Directory Container stgpool

SYSTEM: Product IBM Spectrum Protect ACTOR: User requires additional option of the export/import node to include backup and archive data stored on directory container object storage pool, both on on and off premise.Function to back up a directory ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Support COHESITY SmartFiles S3 Object Lock for IBM Storage Protect Container Storage Pools

It is a major Storage Protect customer request. This customer has a project to integrate COHESITY SmartFiles and wants to use it to host immutable backups. It should work as it is the case with Storage Protect on AWS Object Lock today.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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