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Storage Protect Family

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ReFS and S2D support for Spectrum Protect server on Windows

The IBM Spectrum Protect server installation on Windows does currently not support the resiliant filesystem (ReFS) from Microsoft as underlying filesystem due to restrictions of supported filesystems for the DB2 database. The Spectrum Protect team...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

IBM SPP to show daily replication throughput

Customer needs to know the daily replication throughput and status for SPP vsnap replication.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

OSSM Proxy on the same server as SP OSSM Server

currently on VSNAP servers we have the ability to also run the vadp proxy on the same server. with OSSM this is not possible. we need to have separate proxies as using the SP OSSM server as a OSSM proxy doesnt work. having separate vm proxies requ...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SPP| exclude single folder from VM snapshot backup

In SPP for VM snapshot base backup, exclude single folder from VM snapshot backup. End user want to exclude there application/DB folder (one/more than one folder or particular extension for file like .mdf,.ldf)
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

provide SPP micro-agent installation packages

Customer organization has separation of responsibilities such that pushing micro-agents (specifically file-level indexing micro-agent) is onerous and time consuming. In similar cases in their organization, an agent installation package (including ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Inbound replication should report statistics into the summary table

Currently statistics for data ingested using replication (classic, stgrule or protect stgpool) is not completely reported to the summary table, the bytes value is always 0. This makes it difficult to run reports or monitor load on a server that ha...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Web based Blue-print document for Spectrum protect /plus

We are using Blue-Print document to configure our environment for Spectrum protect / plus. This is document and many times it gets ignored by customers to configure their environment. It is important to refer blue-Print document before sizing / co...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Provide OC / SP error that will notify us when server instance crash or hang

Is there an OC / SP error that will notify us when dsmserv is down (db2 is either down or up) and, notify us when an instance appears to be hung? IF that can be produced later on that would be a great advantage to keep administrators ahead with an...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

TSM Node replication should report warning instead of failure when associated node cannot be replicated

TSM 7.1.x reports a replication failure when a client node that has been setup for replication has an associated node which is not setup for replication or is a Receive Node. Replication succeeds, but process result is FAILURE, which is not the ca...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Operation Center Client Deployment Support for Ubuntu/Debian

Operation Center does not support Linux86 Ubuntu platform for client deployments.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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