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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Encrypt CREDentialsfile

IBM really? stores credentials in plain text. Does your policy allow this?
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Recommision node / reverting decommission node command

Implementing a recommission node command to stop the decommission node process without restoring database.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

FILE class mount retention

Enable MOUNTRET on FILE class volumes.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

No storage for client transaction

The customer wants to know if it is possible to get a request for improvement started so that TSM B-A clients will handle this problem file more elegantly, without blowing up server storage? We added a few hundred Unix servers to ECS (object stora...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Select Node, which using Encryption, from Server

We have system with nearly 11000 nodes and I would like to know as Server-Administrator, which nodes have encrypted data and can be affected by some changes.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Qumulo SMB backup API integration

Integration with Qumulo API to eliminate the long/timely treewalk to see which files/folders have changed.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Change (add) blocksize to 256K for backup NDMP for HNAS to Tape

Hello,We were faced with the slow speed of data backup via NDMP protocol from Hitachi NAS device. Hitachi said that our backup speed through IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.9 will increase 3 times if you Add and make a choicethe block size during backup....
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect AD LDAP enhancement for multiple AD domains

As of now Spectrum Protect can authenticate against single AD domain. However, we have Spectrum protect administrators from multiple different regions around the globe and administrators from each region have AD account on their own AD domain. For...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

DB Backup Requirements

Design of DB Backup of ISP is not optimal. One of Requirements for DB Backup is "free 8GB" on Actlog and Mirrorlog partitions for temporary operations.For Actlog and Mirrorlog will be used expensive storage and parts of them can be used only for f...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Dedupstats continuous update

Having an option to enable background updating of dedupstats is preferred to running 'update dedupstats *' every day. 'update dedupstats' should only have to be run if information in dedupstats has become inconsistent.This could be a background pr...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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