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Storage Protect Family

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Add virtualmountpoint support for Spectrum Protect for Space Management on Spectrum Scale servers

Please allow Spectrum Protect for Space Management in a Spectrum Scale environment to operate on virtualmountpoints. This means support in the following scenario: 1) A large Spectrum Scale file system is split into multiple smaller filesets. 2) Ea...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Not under consideration

Need to track configuration changes to avoid accidental or malicious changes on the configuration

In Spectrum Protect is no mechanism implemented to avoid accidental or malicious changes of configuration when logged into the adminstration client as an administrator. To achieve a higher protection for this case scenario we would need a mechanis...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Move Data from old copy pool to new copy pool

In order to handle tape media upgrades or tape recording format upgrades, customers need the ability to MOVE data from an old copy pool to a new copy pool
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

possibility to tag all tcp/ip package with QoS tags

We have problems that the backup and recoveries has an impact of business traffic on remote locations.Especially if the backups and recoveries takes so long time that they exceed backup window and extend on to normal business hours.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Security non compliance with Windows VM self-service file-level restore requiring a Domain administrator account

Spectrum Protect for VE Self-Service file-level restore uses the domain administrator credentials to access network shares on the remote virtual machine.This is seen in many cases as a gab in the security and a risk of security non compliance for ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Working OOtB Spectrum Protect Client for Ubuntu

System: SpectrumProtect Client for Ubuntu Linux.Actor: System administrator requesting to share some improvements with the world. Solution:-----------If IBM's .deb packages would1. use more features that the .deb format offers,2. be downloadable f...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

TDP MS Exchange restore performance issue

"After the talk with development, we could change our incremental restore logic. At restore time, we know which backups we need to restore. We could cache it if it's all in the same restore command. This would be a pretty big re-write, but we thin...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

dsmc query backup -detail show all volume IDs

dsmc query backup xxx -detail only display one volume id, please display all volumes IDs or volume_names used by xxx objects.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Support for Spectrum Protect Container Storage Pools Greater Than 1PiB

Currently, container storage pools have a limit of 1PiB per Protect server. For backing up very large environments (such as Spectrum Scale), this can lead to a proliferation of Protect servers, increasing the complexity of the solution.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Allow multi-threaded backups/archive/expire via FileList methodology

Currently, we lose any multi-threading when we use the FileList parameter. The request is to allow multiple files to be specified, which can be handled by multiple threads (up to a specific maximum, when would then process the files in order but s...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

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