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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Suppport FreeNAS S3 as S3 compatible Object Storage

FreeNAS/TrueNAS is a commonly used small to medium software appliance for storage. It provides S3 API via Minio and is compatible with S3.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TSM repository server is not supported as catalog backup target for SPP+ (enable catalog backup to repository server)

Using the SPP+ gui you can select a TSM repository server as a target for catalog backup for SPP+. I have opened a call with IBM support (TS013178083) because at 10.1.14-217 release at least of SPP+ no matter how you configure the TSM S3 repositor...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect API for DB2 does not allow to set 'set protect size' info. Hence OC does not count it for License check

Nodes being used for DB2 database backup using TSM client API are not reporting to front end capacity usage (in Operation Center). Hence unable to utilize OC for license calculation. Refer PMR Numbers TS001718996 and TS002594393.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add confirmation question for restart in Administrative Console - System Management

If accidently clicking on the "Restart IBM Spectrum Proctect Plus" it will happen instantly. I think it would be better with a confirmation here instead of using "hot" buttons.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management: integrated data masking is not available with virtual servers

The data masking feature is not supported with virtual servers, only physical servers.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add option to SPP to disable automatic connection to IBM update center.

There's a long timeout when using the Administrative Console before it is possible to click on "Updates and Hotfix Management" when there's no connection to IBM update center. After this long timeout when it is possible to click and go to the "Upd...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management should be able individually rename target filesystems

SCDM can add a prefix, suffix, or replace a string when changing target filesystem names. It would be useful to have a one to one mapping of the source and targets to be renamed as an additional option.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Data Copy Management should be able to disable archive log mode on the target

SCDM should be able to bring up a target database and take it out of archive log mode. Most users do not run test copies of their databases in archive log mode.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management should update /etc/fstab

SCDM should automatically update /etc/fstab on linux targets when it mounts replicated filesystems and also remove them when unmounting them. Then filesystems will automatically be mounted if the target system reboots.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM SPP Support for Non-AD LDAP servers

IBM SPP to support for Non-AD LDAP servers such as OpenLDAP
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration