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Storage Protect Family

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Increase vmmaxvirtualdisks limit

Increase the maximum supported disk size (Vmmaxvirtualdisks option) to current available limit. In version 8.1.10 the maximum is 8TB but the maximum vmdk size in cSphere 6.7 is 64TB.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Configuration of the ISP client 8.1.9.0 in a clustered environment (AIX and Linux).

Configuration of the ISP client 8.1.9.0 in a clustered environment (AIX and Linux). As stated in TS003354444 it does not work though we follow the instructions in "https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_7.1.0/com.ibm.itsm.srv.doc/c_clu...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Plus: Enhance schedule daily, weekly,monthly and yearly

Spectrum Protect Plus: Enhance schedule daily, weekly,monthly and yearly Currently we need to create with multiple SLA for different schedule of daily, weekly, monthly.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Protection copy for On-Premise Cloud Containers

On Premise Storage like Cloud Object Storage (COS) and other vendor solutions gives the ability, to use modern data protection with on premise cloud storage pools. In the age of cyber crime and ransomware, it is very important and a business requi...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Create Reports for Data which is send to Object Storage for single Clients / Servers

Hello actually we need to create Reports for Data which is sent from SPP to TSM Object Storage within additional copies and archives. I can not find a report type in SPP which supports the report for data amounts for additional copies / archives. ...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

Possibility for monthly and annual Archiving to TSM Tape

When configuring additional copies with offload on TSM, you can only use container pools for storage, but container pools cannot be migrated to tape. Since we only use all-flash SAN storage, this is a very costly solution. For our customer, we nee...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under 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

Need expanded reporting capabilities in SPP

Customer is unable to do true custom reporting to get reports that are meaningful to their business units. Currently there are only the canned reports in PDF format available. Customer would like to have the ability to build out reports in a simil...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Use proxy server for accessing IBM updates

To enhance security, and keep access to internet to a minimum, a proxy server should be used to obtain fixes and updates. This will allow for automatic updates for systems that are more locked down than usual.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Needs more information

No comma's in session and process numbers

For almost 20 years I work with ADSM/TSM/ISP I'm super annoyed that you can't do an easy copy/paste of the session or process number to the cancel command if the number is higher then 999 Please remove the comma when you do a query session or quer...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration