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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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    Our customer's shell script was failed by "GSKKM_ERR_VALIDATION_KEY_VALIDITY_PERIOD"

    Our customer's shell script was failed by "GSKKM_ERR_VALIDATION_KEY_VALIDITY_PERIOD".We understand we can intentionally avoid this by recreating the certificate manually,but it will cause the operational load to occur.Our customer want us to make ...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Functionality already exists

    Simplify Ubuntu/Debian install instructions by using apt instead of dpkg

    Since apt/apt-get nowadays (well, since apt 1.1 released in 2015) support installing from local file, https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.11/client/t_inst_ubuntu_x86_64client.html should probably be changed from multiple dpkg -i...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    Bring back the Spectrum Protect Web Client

    What was our main way of doing restores and manual backups is now gone. For over twenty years I have used tsm - spectrum protect and using the web client which was big part of that time. Without it we have to remote desktop to servers taking away ...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

    Using an external Key Management System for ISP Client encrytion

    At the moment there is no possibility to connect an external key management system for the ISP client encryption. The key is either generated automatically by the ISP server or has to be entered manually. We need a posibility to connect the ISP Cl...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    dsmc - more producer threads per filesystem

    Modern SAN storage should not be limited to one producer thread per client filesystem during backups, nor 4 producer threads per DSMC instance. Requesting:A) RESOURCEUTIL max value should be higher, perhaps 20. B) New option, RESTHREADSPERFS, to s...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Supported IBM Spectrum Protect Backup/Archive Client is needed for Red Hat Version 8

    No supported IBM Spectrum Protect Backup/Archive Client for Redhat Version 8 currently exists.Unfortunately, So far there are no news or any estimated time when Spectrum Protect products will support the Redhat V8.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

    TSM Client Support for ZFS on Linux filesystems

    ZFS has been ported to Linux distributions, namely, Redhat Linux and other SysV environments. This RFE proposes to enable support for ZFS on Linux filesystems as a natively supported filesystem for backup and archive via the standard Linux TSM BA ...
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    SSL management enhancement

    I have 2 related requests: Currently SP clients above V8.12/7.1.8 use TLS/SSL by default only encrypt authentication and session meta data. Full session encryption requires that ssl yes be added to the client dsm.opt/dsm.sys. I would like to see t...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

    Integrate Restore UI with Spectrum Protect server

    Symentac Netbackup, Commuvault and other Backup software have RESTORE UI integrated with Master server console. We need to develop Spectrum Protect with the RESTORE UI integrated with Spectrum Protect server
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    Please add the connected servername to the dsmadmc window title

    If you have multiple TSM Administrative Commandline windows open you can easily loose track on which is which. It would be very useful if the servername one connects to is added to the title of the dsmadmc window.
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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