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Storage Protect Family

OC Reports: Display formatted numbers right-aligned

The OC should display results from the VARCHAR_FORMAT command right-aligned to make the report more readable. I've noticed that in OC reports containing numbers, those numbers are sometimes left-aligned, even when they are padded with spaces. This...
4 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) Submitted

true ransomeware detection

Gov. require all banking industry to do true ( AI driven ) ransomeware detection and defense which available to other Dataprotection software. the way we do now is by a fake ANR3692W msg without any intelligence ( our product manager Girish aware ...
5 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

support SP server db encryption

government of canada is requesting all financial institution to encrypt the database . our current Server database isn't encrypted or not support encrypt from DB2 side.
5 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Please add VMWare cloud Foundation 9 to the supported hypervisors.

We have customers that still use Storage protect for virtual environments and Broadcom forces them to change to VMWare Cloud Foundation in the near future and if Storage Protect does not support this they have to switch the an other backup tool.
10 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Submitted

Extension of the character limit for management class names

A customer operate under a policy of assigning a unique management class to each node.By including the node name in the management class name, it is possible to identify which management class corresponds to which node.Currently, management class ...
11 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

TDP for MySQL/MariaDB is really needed.

As an IBM Business Partner employee I support a number of clients with ISP installations. Everyone are quite in disbelief when I tell that there is no native support for backup/restore of MySQL/MariaDB databases, which are somewhat popular, since ...
13 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases Submitted

Enable dynamically changing the language of server query output

Currently, the server’s output language cannot be changed dynamically when issuing administrative query commands. To change the language, the server must be restarted after updating the LANGUAGE server option in dsmserv.opt. In terms of ACTLOG, pr...
20 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Request for Warning Message in Activity Log for Cloud Connection SAS Token Expiration

Current Behaviour: The IBM Storage Protect server does not generate activity log events related to cloud connection SAS token expiration. Risk: No access to the cloud blob storage will occur once the SAS token expires, resulting in backup and rest...
20 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Prevend db2 abort within multiple backup streams

If an error/abort occurs on one of the tape drives during a 6-stream db2 backup to tape, the entire backup is aborted by the db2. Please change the error behavior for db2 backups to resume with the remaining sessions to finish the backup job succe...
24 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) Submitted

Warning message needed for deleting any data storage in object lock storage in cloud in IBM storage Protect server

Current behavior: ISP allows deletion actions (e.g., DELETE FILESPACE) even when target data is stored in a cloud container storage pool with Object Lock. Risk: Admins can mistakenly remove catalog references while the cloud objects remain undel...
26 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

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