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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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    Ubuntu on s390x support for Spectrum Project Client

    Originally requested in 2019 and was marked for future consideration, IBM support Ubuntu on s390x Linux on Z however does not provide a backup client for Spectrum on an IBM platform s390x Linux on Z.
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

    Powershell interface to dsmc and dsmadmc

    Powershell is becoming the scripting language of choice for windows. It is difficult to call existing dsmc and dsmadmc command line tools from powershell and reasonably process the output. Powershell has an object pipeline model and file output do...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Missing WEB-client in ISP 8.1.2 and later

    We updated one of out ISP-Servers (AIX) to Version 8.1.3 a few days ago. After having finished that I also updated one Windows Agent to BA-Version 8.1.2 (file Server). Everything is working fine except the fact, that the WEB-Client is no longer su...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    For Storage Protect Backup/Archive client add a dsmcad systemd unit file that is instance aware.

    Sometimes it is useful to run multiple dsmcad instances on a single host. Each will backup different file spaces to different tsm backup nodes. To accomplish this additional dsmcad systemd unit files must be created. systemd unit files have this t...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Under review

    gskcrypt64-8.0.55 rpm packages require invalid binary files /bin/ln and /bin/sh

    For a long time RHEL has provided both /bin/X and /usr/bin/X even though the packages only install /usr/bin/X This is true for RHEL7, RHEL8 and RHEL9 The gskcrypt64 package should have been changed a long time ago to require /usr/bin/X components ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Under review

    B/A Client 8.x support for Solaris (SPARC on 11.4)

    Customer is requesting support of B/A client on 8.x for SPARC Solaris Servers. Currently are backing up the environment with 7.x client but it's reaching EOS in Dec/2021.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    DSMCAD should write a PID File

    DSMCAD is missing an option to write a PID file. When the daemon is started it forks into background and the started process vanishes. You can only grep the process list to get the PID of the running process. Tools like systemd need this informati...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    To have a possiblity to disable certain ciphers on BA

    As one of our customers is operating an SP environment, they are regularly check with PEN-tests. And each year the find the BA to be possible vulnerable to CVE-2013-0169 (LUCKY13) as there are CBC ciphers available on the "schemode=prompted port" ...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

    AIX Client install move the Client Acceptor Daemon (dsmcad) from Web Client package to the base package.

    In our environment we don't use the Web Client, but we need the CAD to run the scheduler, moving this to the base package would mean one less package to install. We noticed that dsmcad is required to run the webclient, but the webclient is not req...
    5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    IBM Spectrum Protect OneDrive Support

    IBM Spectrum Protect need to be able to protect data on Microsoft OneDrive. Our competition can do this today and customers have started asking if we can do this or not.
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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