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Implement a way for TSM admins to report stgpool usage over a period of time, for example, a data point daily for the last year.

TSM administrators need to be able to predict when new hardware must be purchased, and a usage trend will facilitate that.
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Need to improve the speed of deleting a large number of small files

when deleting a large number of small files, most of the deleted ones are reclaimed in the background asynchronous process of fullscandeletion, but the process of space reclamation is relatively slow
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Additional SPP Support for Oracle XE Version

Backup by SPP not possible for Oracle XE: Oracle Database 18c Express Edition Release 18.0.0.0.0
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Request for improvement that the deferred copies should start soon after demount.

Generally deferred copy is very useful to copy logical volumes to the remote clusters between long distance and to avoid longer job's elaps time than that sync or immediate copy consitency point brings on the grid configration.Today, deferred copi...
over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

Migration of Data/Backups between VSnaps

In backup operations, it is becoming increasingly apparent that existing backup jobs are growing larger and larger, reaching the limits of a VSNAP. Adding new VSNAPs only helps new backup jobs or distributes existing backups to different VSNAPs. A...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

We would like to store all our archive data on a S3 AWS cold tier target.

We have a use case in our environment for sending our archive data to a cloud container pool that would exist on the Spectra Logic BlackPearl device that supports AWS cold tier functionality. With an S3 cold tier cloud container option we would no...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Hyperlink SP4C login from Defender landing page

Customers who are seeking to purchase an end to end data resiliency platform have also indicated a need to backup cloud workloads from the same pane of glass. Storage Protect for Cloud is the best SaaS cloud backup solution in the market and by me...
about 1 year ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

Add option in Spectrum Protect OC to send reports in PDF format

One of my customers requested to have the option to send Spectrum Protect reports in PDF format via email. This is the same functionality that they have today, since they are using Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager and IBM Tivoli Common...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Future consideration

Remove the requirement for disabling UAC on application aware VE backups

As of now the use of the application aware Exchange backup with Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments requires the permanent disabling of Windows UAC. We would like to see a different solution (that does not require Windows UAC to be disabled ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Improve the error Prone Default Settings for Data Movers in TDP-VE

We recently upgraded to TDP-VE for VMware v8.1.23 and when adding a new data mover over the WebGUI provides the User with default settings to add to the local .opt file. Under Windows this cause an issue with the logfile location. Below are the se...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

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