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Storage Protect Family

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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

Space and container usage on SP server

Ever since directory container pools was introduced, the "undocumented / unsupported" command: show sdpool has been the best/only way of managing free, used and unavailable space in the dedup/non-dedup containers. In many cases a manual "move cont...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future 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...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum protect, official support for RedHat 8

Hi. There is a need to use RedHat 8 servers. Lacking support for backups on Spectrum Protect
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Less tape-commits with server-processes like Backup Stg, Migration and Reclamation to improve throuput

TSM does a tape-commit (and thus a time-consuming backhitch on the tape drive) every time the backup-date, the nodename, the filespace or even the managementclass within a single filespaces of a single node changes. This is regardless of / precede...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Metadata only Replication for Spectrum Protect

Entering this request on behalf of Kroger Company Provide the ability on the Spectrum Protect Server to Replicate Meta Data only to an alternate Spectrum Protect Server located at a secondary site used as a Disaster Recovery site.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

gskcrypt64-8.0.55 rpm packages require invalid binary files /bin/ln and /bin/sh

For a long time RHEL has provided both /bin/X and /usr/bin/X even though the packages only install /usr/bin/X This is true for RHEL7, RHEL8 and RHEL9 The gskcrypt64 package should have been changed a long time ago to require /usr/bin/X components ...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Retain last X backups beyond date based expiration

Retain a configurable amount of backups beyond date based retention, requiring administrator action to delete.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Export node on container pools

The ability to export node data when using container pools
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 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.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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