IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Provide a simple administrative command to show the the total size of backed-up data on a server instance on a given single day (24 hours)

    While it is required to size the replication server pairs, the product does not provide a simple administrative command to show the total size of backed-up data on a server instance on a given single day (24 hours). Currently, the only way to get ...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Easy change certificate on S3 storage agent

    Today the S3 Agent certifikate is catched from the default certifikation on sp server at the the installation of s3 agent. It's not possible to add a new certifikate to the s3 agent certificate store. To change the certificate you must deinstall t...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Support Flexgroup volumes in containerpools

    NDMP Backup of Netapp-Flexgroup should be supported to container pools. Flexvol is supported and working, but Flexgroup are denied because of different magic in the header (EA6C vs. EA6D).
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

    AlwaysOn Servermon should be able to automatically cleanup old datacollections in the instance_home/srvmon directory

    Multiple of our SP server instances experienced an issue which prevented AlwaysOn Servermon from starting up.The servermon log files show that servermon is crashing at startup.We found that servermon is crashing at startup because there are a lot ...
    9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    enable all deviceclasses in "del volhist t=dbb" command

    When removing dbbackups via deleting volumehistory there is no possibility of retaining certain older backups in other device classes. The "del volhist t=dbb" doesn't recognise non-server deviceclasses. This would be a welcome addition for enablin...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Under review

    Storage Protect Storage Agent should report all issue to the Storage Protect server activitiy log

    We run into a LANfree backup issue. Diagnosing the issue took a long time because the STA was not reporting the drive failures into the SP server activity log. Environment: SP AIX library manager (LM) server 8.1.21.0, SP server name LIBMGR. SP AIX...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 0 Submitted

    vSnap – zfs enhancements

    vSnaps of SPP are build with zfs. zfs provides management capabilities like enlarging virtual disks, moving data from one virtual disk to another, .... standard LVM stuff vSnap does not support. The only mechanism vSnap support is "add virtual dis...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    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 ...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2

    [Copy] Open AOS for TS4500 and TS770 via TSSC REST API Call

    (I have opened this case in the TS4500 product area because I cannot select the TSSC (TS3000) in the product area in the IDEAS portal) We want to open AOS (Assist on Site) access via a REST API call to automate and speed up internal processes. The...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 4 Future consideration

    Retain CSM level after HMC Kernel update

    When CSM is upgraded outside of a Remote Code Load (RCL) using the stand alone DSCLI and an RCL occurs afterwards where the HMC kernel is updated, CSM is back-leveled to the version that is included in the microcode bundle. This forces the User/Ad...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Not under consideration

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