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Storage Protect Family

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Disable scan of files before archiving when using filelist

We have been archiving with file lists for over 20 years, so we know that the client archived differently and, above all, faster in earlier versions (5-7). If you specified a file list in these old versions, archiving started within a few seconds,...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management to leverage existing storage replication relationships

IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management for SAP/HANA environment
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future 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...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Prevent Maintenance Tasks from reporting a warning when behaving as expected.

SPP can display events in the maintenance task, such as snapshots locked because of dependencies, as a warning in the summary dashboard. These however are expected behaviour with no action required. Displaying such events as a warning can be misle...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow local protect storagepool for cloud Container

Because of compliance guidelines, many users need to implement a “media brake” at their backup strategy. But the, very cost effective, Cloud Container Storage lacks the ability to protect the Storage pool to a tape pool.As the “protect stgpool typ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Trigger email/report when sla run contains failed vms

If a job that has run contains failed vms, sytem should send out email/report to pre-defined address to report this incident.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Report visualizer inside Operations Center

The only way to visualize a report output is to send the report by email using the "Send" option. This is not practical when creating/modifying a report and you need to see the result quickly in order to make changes/corrections to the SQL. It wou...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Application Inventory Job Change Report/Alert

An Oracle database that exists on the database server is no longer being found or displayed in SPP. This is not considered a failure, so no reporting is provided. Customer needs an alert or report to see the changes to the inventory job. The parti...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Configurable block size for tape

We have a tape library about 50km away from the managing SP server; connected over fibre. Due to the nature of the FC protocol for tape drives (strictly serial acknowledgement) and the latency, a single data stream gets limited to around 120MBps, ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

Add TS1160 support to V7 Storage Agent

Platin/PlatiniumCustomer VW has more than 200 physical HP/UX and SUN Solaris server, running several applications, including Oracle, some of them larger than 100 TB. All these server are using TSM TDP with LAN free backup. VW purchased the TS4500 ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 1 Not under consideration

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