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Storage Protect Family

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Spectrum Protect Migration process hang waiting volumes in use

Storagepools with file type devclass are used on a large scale in this client. the problem occurs when the migration process starts and some session has a mounted .bfs file (backup or restore). The migration process remains stuck until the session...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Operation Center Anomaly Reporting Improvement

Right the anomaly reporting of OC is very basic and not very usefull. There is no good way to export it and create a daily list of client nodes with anomalies and what type of anomalies are those. We would like to be able: Generate a daily spreads...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Prevent Web B/A client file level restore port conflict with WAS ports

Customer identified during the Spectrum Protect web client implementation that its ports (9081) conflicts directly with WAS (Websphere Application Server) ports that's is being in use by their banking online production applications. Thus this beha...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

SPP: be able to rename SLA

SPP: Please allow for renaming SLA.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for GFS2 file systems

Support for GFS2 file systems. Customer tested the backup and restore of GFS2 FileSystems and the attributes are not restored. Then, the current solution is not valid
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Support-info collection, upload and analytics tool

It is a pain to collect db2diag-logs, dsmffdc-logs, Q SYSTEM output, Q ACT output and so on for every support ticket, then bundle the files, scp to computer with browser and upload to IBM Support. Why not, instead of sending the commands every tim...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SPP Updated Reporting

Currently the reporting in Spectrum Protect Plus needs a bit of work. Couple of requests i would like to make.1. The ability to have all sizes in the same format. IE everything in bytes, MB,GB,TB etc.The reason for this is then the ability to sort...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Backup vCLS VMs

Exclude vCLS VMs from VM backups using TDP for VMware. Is not possible exclude VMs from backup using TAG, when VM is backed up using Schedule-Tag option.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Lucene DB maintenance option

I require an option within Spectrum Protect Plus that that will given me the ability to either reset the Lucene db (like drop the entire DB) or remove file indexing entries older than x days) This would give me the flexibilty to better control wha...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

selectable DIO/nonDIO-Support on Storagepools

we are working now in our TSM-Environment with a complete implementation of GPFS as the the filesystem layer for our TSM-Plattfom on AIX and Linux. With the possibility to use many performance function in gpfs we can massively enhance our performa...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration