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Spectrum Protect Plus: Improvement suggestion for the Restore-OpenShift function "Restore to alternate cluster"

System: IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Server Spectrum Protect Plus is used to secure the various OpenShift clusters. In the event of a disaster recovery, it is a common scenario that the saved status of the defective cluster has to be transferred to a...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

We need application consistent Safeguarded Copy protect for SAP R/3

We have multiple customers that are still using SAP R/3 for a while before switching to SAP HANA. Since ERP is part of their minimum viable company, we need a way to safeguard this application.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Under review

Data integrity check per dasd volume

Right now, data integrity is very very important in all IT systems. Very often, we would perform dasd volume copy in daily BAU or in system upgrade steps. We need to have a easy to use, straight forward and fast method to compare the data in 2 das...
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Support for Active Directory Item restore

Today does IBM Storage Protect Backup-Archive Client only support to protect Microsoft Active Directory and do a total Disaster Recovery of Microsoft Active Directory. If we want to restore only one item in the Active Directory to get back from a ...

Instant VMDK Restore with Overwrite Capabilities

German customer would like the option of restoring VMDK over top of the exisiting original VMDK. The restore today only mounts the VMDK in parallel when recovered back to the original. Competitor VMware VDP for which SPP replaced was able to do a ...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Improve cancellation method of HSM TCT request when HyperSwap is attempted from HOST perspective

When HSM TCT requests get hung due to faulty network configuration, etc, ANTMAIN holds enqueue on PLANNED.HSWAP.plexname resource which causes planned hyperswap to fail unless ANTMAIN tasks are canceled. Request to improve cancellation method of P...
6 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

multiple backup sessions per FS

It would be interesting to be able to backup a single big FS with multiple backup sessions without the need to define VirtualMountpoints ( besides virtualmountpoints is not available on windows ).If the DSMC could automatically scan the directory ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 7 Not under consideration

Node custom information user field

A 'custom information' field is desirable where we could input information in any format we as a user wish. There is no custom field to use for node details. Only 'Contact' field is available and it is not sufficient.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Adding Support of Noobaa Metrics with Integration in Zimon Sensors

Currently the existing mmces protocols has integration of metrics in the zimon Sensor Framework, but the newest one, mms3 (noobaa-core) don't. We use the current zimonGrafanaBgridge to visualize these Metrics in Grafana. The current available func...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

resource aware scheduling in TSM

I work with TSM for 9 years and the biggest TSM's weakness I found is the scheduling. All the large environments I worked on used some external scheduling application like TWS or Control-M to be able to keep the resources under control. The proble...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 11 Not under consideration