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Storage Protect Family

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SPP: Get SQL backup amount via REST API / report

I would like to have possibility in SPP to get correct backup amount (frontend size) for each client. Just for clarification frontend amount should be base backup + all transfer sizes before deduplication and compression. Actual build-in reports a...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

Storage Protect client and possibly server Linux on ARM (ampere computing)

We are evaluation running more workloads on ampere computing (containers but also std vms)I would like to use storage protect client for backup/archiving as step1 and also interested in the serverside if We cant run AIX or Linux on power then the ...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Need better job and resource management feature to avoid multiple simultaneous job start upon SPP restart after unexpected outage

The current IBM Storage Protect Plus design makes that, upon appliance restart after an unexpected outage, all pending jobs are started simultaneously. This can overwhelm the appliance available resouces if numerous jobs are pending. As an example...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

Tagging Node and Data

We see more and more situations where specific nodes or filespaces need to have different functions such Retention Set, Replication to multiple servers or protect to tape and this is a big hazel to mange where we have try both with Node Groups, de...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Enhancement Request - Automating audit operations to detect damaged extents, inconsistencies, and corrupted files in the background

Periodic runs of the audit containers command or using audit stgrule options are required to scan the chunks and detect any inconsistencies and damages. This is an intensive and manual operation that adds additional overhead to the Storage Protect...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Improve the error Prone Default Settings for Data Movers in TDP-VE

We recently upgraded to TDP-VE for VMware v8.1.23 and when adding a new data mover over the WebGUI provides the User with default settings to add to the local .opt file. Under Windows this cause an issue with the logfile location. Below are the se...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

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 ...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Under review

double library libTsmViSdk.so / unnecessary space usage

We noticed that the libTsmViSdk.so library is included into the TIVsm-API64 and TIVSM-BA package: bash-4.4$ find /opt/tivoli/ -name libTsmViSdk.so /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/api/bin64/libTsmViSdk.so /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/libTsmViSdk.so bash-4....
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Server Cross-replication with Client Acceptors to both on all clients

Site fail-over/fail-back of the "restore" function (read from ISP server(s)) is already provided in the ISP server product. Site fail-over/fail-back of the "backup" function (write to ISP server) is not. If site A goes down, backups must be suspen...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Timeout for Replication

We have seen a scenario where if we got a Network Issue between two IBM Storage Protect Servers and the replication failed on the Source machine the target machine doesn't timeout it session. When we get in that stage we can't cancel any sessions ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

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