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Storage Protect Family

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release empty volumes on migration process

In Spectrum Protect the data are stored on the primary storage pool. if filled up, a migration process is triggered to move the data to the next storage pool (e.g. from disk to tape). This migration process creates a list of volumes of the primary...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Create 'Retention set on Tape' for SQL and DB2

Creating Retention sets on tape are only possible for TDP Vmware/Hyper-V and BAclient; we would like the capability to be extended to DB2 and SQL as well. ANR1017E UPDATE RETRULE: File space SQLREP\SQL02\meta\0000 that belongs to node SQL01N1_SQL ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

MS-SQL Support for Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments V8.1 and Spectrum Protect for Databases V8.1

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments V8.1 and Spectrum Protect for Databases V8.1 should support MS-SQL 2012.Customer has a large MS-SQL 2012 installation base running on VMware. Both products do not support a official supported version of MS...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Backup NAS Incremental

We have a large backup NAS volume for daily backup.And this volumetry of data stored and transferred daily are enormous.Backups are Differential, we need a way to perform an incremental backup.We also need a solution to backup and restore at the s...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 4 Not under consideration

Run enduser file level restore with restricted privileges

Request to be able to run the end-user file level restore UI with restricted priviledges. Currently, per documentation a domain-admin UID is required to run the UI. It would be highly advisable to run the UI with the minimum privileges required fo...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Add support to Spectrum Protect Plus for DB2 on Windows Systems

Actually Spectrum Protect Plus does not support DB2 running on Windows Systems.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Provide option to prevent object-splitting on tape

Having clients archiving and restoring directly to and from tape we're trying to have the least possible amount of tape mounts. However at the end of a lot of tapes the last file gets split when EOV occurs. There should be an option to consider a ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Summary of how time is spent on a job in dsminstr.log - i.e. by percentage to easily determining the primary bottlenecks

Currently, all the information in the dsminstr.log is by thread, and it would be fantastic to know how to summarize this information on a job-level. This is very hard - if not impossible - to do in the current state, as all information is per thre...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Needs more information

Dedup enabled on replication

The request is for deduplication being enabled when replicating between different vsnap repository
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for VMware vCloud Director

When does IBM expect that Spectrum Protect Plus have support for VMware vCloud Director.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration