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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Enable Admin with Policy Privilege to "upd no sessionsec=trans" (currently fails with ANR2035E)

Admin user has been granted „Policy Privilege: WIN“ and can execute "unlock node" and "update node" for resetting password.BUT upd node fails with "ANR2035E UPDATE NODE: Administrator XYZ is not authorized to issue this command." when resetting fo...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Db2admin member of local administrators group

Due to security policy the db2admin user should not be member of the local administrators group in Windows. The DB2 service can run as a service but the Spectrum Protect Server needs to be a member of the local admin group.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Send actlog to a remote syslog, a central loghost

There is a possibility to program userexit/fileexit to use syslog. But, the nativ support of remote syslog is needed as a standard solution. Send all entries that goes to actlog to remote syslog as a single line.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Integrate 'Relabel Scratch' command with Fujitsu Eternus vJuke virtual libraries

Fujitsu Eternus VTLs are well known in several customer's ISP environments. Main difference to other VTLs is the ability to stack logical volumes on physical tapes in the backend.Data written to the VTL is stored in a tape volume cache (TVC) on vi...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Rentention Sets for SAP/ERP

Spectrum Protect retention sets are utilized to achieve longer data retention without the need to make further interactions with the host. This capability is available for file and 'VE' data. We need this to be extended for other use cases, and in...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Adjust DECOMMISION NODE command to show ALL the changes done by it

ISP server administrators will benefit from it by spending less time on collecting action evidences for ticketing systems. Currently the command DECOMMISSION NODE with WAIT=YES doesn't show all the changes that command is doing. Check the piece of...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Support AWS PrivateLink for S3 bucket in Spectrum Protect

We use AWS PrivateLink, which allows AWS customers to send data to S3 over a site-to-site VPN and their VPC, instead of going over the public internet. AWS PrivateLink works by giving customers a personalized DNS address, which can be used to acce...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Support DELL ECS and other for S3 lock container

Give the Avaibility to add an S3 lock container on a Dell ECS solution to improve the security. Actually it's just possible to lock the data on COS or AWS.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Allow REPLICATE NODE against DECOMMissioned nodes

Customer would like to REPLICATE nodes that are in a DECOMMISIONED status. The reason is to have 2 or 3 copies of archived data, to be maintained for legal reasons for 10 years, currently stored in a dedup container. He wants to create a new repli...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Manage proxy node ( restore Only , backup Only ,both)

Hello, We have production and not production environment. Some nodes needs to be restored on not production environment. But a derogation is mandatory to do it. So, we configured proxy nodes . Then we can lock and unlock the nodes to be compliance...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration