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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...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Backup of Microsoft Teams Chat transcripts in Protect Plus Office365

Working with a customer who is moving to Office 365 and needs a product to provide backups. As a Spectrum Protect customer today they looked at Protect Plus for Office 365, but the IBM solution lacks the capability to backup the Microsoft Teams "C...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM SPP to show daily replication throughput

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

When attemting to start a DP for SQL DB restore it starts immediately without warning

When the customer starts a DB restore it starts immediately without warning the customer that the restore will be done to the existing database. A warning message should appear to the customer before starting the restore explaining that the "Resto...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

SPP original storage policy during restore instead of default policy

If a customer uses multiple storage policies and a restore is preformed, SPP assigns the default storage policy by default. The customer has to select the original storage policy manually, which can be easily forgotten during a restore.It would be...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Cancel process ALL

Add extra Cancel Process options - Cancel Process ALL- Cancel pro migration (or cancel migration)- Cancel pro backup (or cancel backup) For each process name a Cancel command. Cancel Expiration and Cancel Export already exists.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Expand SP S3 object client interface to allow targeting tape for users outside of SPP

Multiple customers have requested that we allow Spectrum Protect to receive data via S3 and store that data on tape. They need a deep/cold archiving solution with air-gap and optional immutability and encryption at-rest support.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Need Support for Open Enterprise Server (OES) OS which is LINUX Distribution

My customer just upgraded his supported OES to a newer version and are being told by IBM that it's no longer support on Spectrum Protect. This OS has been supported in the past (see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/linux-x8664-requirements-ibm-st...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Operation Center Client Deployment Support for Ubuntu/Debian

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

access to the object is denied backup error does not fail a snapdiff backup.

Snapdiff backup shows completed successfully even when encountering ANS4007E access to the object is denied. This error should result if a backup failure. If access denied shows up at directory/volume level then no data may be backed up hence defe...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

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