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Spectrum Protect FreeBSD client

I would like to request support for Spectrum Protect Client that runs natively on FreeBSD.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Update documentation to configure multiple dsmcad services on RHEL 7.x

Please update the documentation about "Manually configuring multiple client acceptor services on a Linux system" (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSERB6_8.1.2/ve.inst/t_ve_cfg_setmulticadslnx.html) for RHEL 7.xBasically, the technote 2...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Add extra filesystem check in linux BA client

After you added support for BTRFS and NFSv4 the new filesystem check has problems to find and verify autofs mounted filesystems on Linux systems. Automounted filesystems will get backed up and you end up with terabytes of extra data in the backup ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Locking mechanism for TSM oldest backup

There is no locking mechanism in TSM to prevent the oldest backup from expiring during the restore operation unless the expiration process is stopped.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

Dedupstats continuous update

Having an option to enable background updating of dedupstats is preferred to running 'update dedupstats *' every day. 'update dedupstats' should only have to be run if information in dedupstats has become inconsistent.This could be a background pr...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

LDAP enhancements related to RFC2307 mappings on Spectrum Scale/GPFS Windows

Currently, GPFS Windows has functional, performance, and HA limitations related to the LDAP AD lookup. The details are documented in IBM Case Number: TS005919437. https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002YlqdkAAB/kosmos-gpfs-windows-filesyst...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Implement end-to-end checksums for non GNR environments

Implement data block checksums in GPFS to protect against silent data corruption. This is particularly important in an FPO environment where there are no RAID controllers to protect against individual SATA drives returning bad data to the applicat...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect TDP for VE - restore procedure for one of the VMDK should allocate only the space of that VMDK

TDP for VE, restore one of multiple source hard disks of a VM. The disk to restore is 50GB another disk of the source VM is 2TB, actually the product allows to restore the small (50GB) disk only after allocating the whole space that was used by th...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Add FLR support for BTRFS in Spectrum Data Protection for Virtual Environments

File Level Restores for BTRFS subvolumes do not work out of the box when using any of the restore interfaces with Spectrum Data Protect for Virtual Environments. Remounting the iSCSI presented snapshot allows for correct mount, but yes, this invol...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

DB Backup Requirements

Design of DB Backup of ISP is not optimal. One of Requirements for DB Backup is "free 8GB" on Actlog and Mirrorlog partitions for temporary operations.For Actlog and Mirrorlog will be used expensive storage and parts of them can be used only for f...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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