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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Enable a "read only" system administrator for monitoring purposes

With the introduction of multi factor authentication in Spectrum Protect, administrative access to the software is significantly increased. However, an administrator without MFA must be used for automated monitoring activities. And for the executi...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Official support for DB2 HADR in Spectrum Protect Server

Although it is easy to find IBM documents recommending DB2 HADR as a replication solution for Spectrum Protect Server database (f.i. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6212198) it is not oficially supported. For this reason these products are ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Provide additional protection when using the decommission command against Oracle or DB2 nodes.

Spectrum Protect Oracle and DB2 client decommission can lead to immediate data expiration and data loss. Due to the copygroup settings required for Oracle and DB2, the risk of using the decommission node command can inadvertently lead to data loss...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

prioritize free space balancing in container storage pool directories more efficiently

For example: rather than filling some directories up to 100% while leaving others at 40%, have all directories at 60%Currently experiencing an ongoing issue for over 1 year where directories are maxing out at 100% full because it fills them up wit...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Inbound replication should report statistics into the summary table

Currently statistics for data ingested using replication (classic, stgrule or protect stgpool) is not completely reported to the summary table, the bytes value is always 0. This makes it difficult to run reports or monitor load on a server that ha...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Servermon (Windows) is using cmd to archive servermon files, located in <instance_dir\srvmon

To protect our ISP Server environment on Windows against Ransomware attacks, we are using the program Blocky for TSM from Grau Data. We can whitelist all programs and applications to update the critical files in the filesysems, like db, log and in...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Error handling for failed node replication - ANR1893E and ANR3824W

Since ISP 8.1.14 we always see this error messages in the log - and monitoring system - for node replication, because some files are skipped. The reason for the skipped files is, that database log backups always occur during the replication. This ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Implement console mode installation to support clean server installations

Remove the need for using a "GUI" server for Spectrum Protect Server. When running the SP on a true server instance, then only allowing GUI install is limiting our environment and also makes installation more complicated due to VM/OS itself but a...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Future consideration

Prevent media with read/write errors to be reused

When a tape has a write error, it should not be reused when it has returned to scratch pool. We need some method to track media statistics across the life time of a tape, from all the SP host that has used the tape. Each SP server should send tape...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Proactive alert on backup policy change or modify in IBM spectrum protect server for prod

To avoid data loss, IBM spectrum protect to Alert or warn proactively on the production server
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

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