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Storage Protect Family

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Multi session restore from container pool should result in load balanced sessions

Technote http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21993961 documents how to tweak the SDNQRSESSSIZE parameter for multi session restores, however the sessions created are not load balanced. This can result in the restore sessions not being...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

More email options from Operations Center such as To, CC and BCC

Currently Operations Center is sending emails thru the BCC option and no way to make it send using the To or CC email options. It is very helpful in a colaborative environment to know where these emails go and who should be contacted so BCC will s...
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

After TLS certificate expires, IBM Spectrum Protect Server automatically renews the previous certificate distributed to nodes.

IBM Spectrum Protect Server TLS certificate expires 10 years after the server instance is created. Immediately after the expiration, all client nodes are unable to connect to the server. One of my customers provides a backup service in their priva...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

dsmserv maintenance does not disable storage rules

Starting the SP server in maintenance mode is a helpful vehicle after software updates and problem determination phases. It disables all internal server processing and client sessions except of preventing storage rules being executed. Disabling st...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Needs more information

can not use Spectrum protect over san in ERP Database

We was working with AIX os and use Spectrum protect to backup the ERP Database on it using Oversan We moved the production server to SUSE enterprise 15 , but now the problem as in the case that over san is not supported with suse 15, and it is urg...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Future consideration

change tape read/write throughput rates

Testing of Tapeoperations (move data) and got a throughput of only 120 MB/s to 140 MB/s with LTO7 tapedrives - in a Situation where nothing else happened
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Please, support to restore NDMP-formatted data retrieved from NAS in a cluster configuration from [tape media](LTO) to another NAS storage system

Why is it useful? : A common-sense solution for backup restoration is achieved with the combination of NAS storage, ISPs, and tape media.Who would benefit from it? : Nearly all users operating tape backups on NAS storage with a cluster configurati...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Oracle DB support on Windows for Spectrum Protect Plus

Spectrum Protect Plus ( actual version 10.1.0.3) is supporting backup of Oracle databases on Linux and AIX environments but not on Windows. It is not even on the road map. There is a big need to have this database vendor supported on Windows as it...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TSM client & server support for CENTOS

Please support CENTOS as a platform for TSM server and client. All other major backup tools support CENTOS as a backup client or server architecture. You cannot stay behind. No support means for us undoubtedly abandoning the TSM (SP) platform.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum protect with java version 11

The latest version of the Java that is supported with the SP for VE and the server is version 8 which means that Java version 11 is not supported as it hasn't been tested. But our customer is planning to remove Java 8 on all the servers across the...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 12 Planned for future release

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