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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Need steps on how we can integrate SPserver with QRADAR SIEM for application threat detection

Useful in integration of QRADAR SIEM with the sp server. And what events to be monitored for the threat detection on sp server?
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

SP Operation Center backup success rate improvement

On the Operation Center, backup success rate is calculated by every node that is registered to the TSM Servers. However, this is not correct approach on every customer environment.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Endtime like parameter on replicate command to limit runtime on process

An option to be able to specify an endtime for a replication job to run to is desired. This way it would be possible to start a replication job, and have it stop automatically .e.g. at 07:30:00 - without having another administrative schedule to c...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

TSM Banner for login

Ability to define a login banner for any CLI or GUI TSM Admin login e.g. Define the login banner on the TSM using an external txt file:Define loginbanner file=/full/path/to/file.txt
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Spectrum Protect server should be able to display what clients are sending 'pre-deduplicated' data

either in operations center, or with a simple select statement, it should be possible to display if a client is actually sending deduplicated data to the Spectrum protect server.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

IBM Spectrum Protect - Active Directory 2012 Support for LDAP Password Authentication

After checking through your documentation it would appear that when trying to use LDAP password authentication, Active Directory 2012 isn't currently supported. I've raised a support call and your technical team have confirmed this is the case - t...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Delivered

Move TSM DB2 tempspace to a separate filesystem

TSM can crash unexpectedly. The DB2 logs indicated that the tempspace ran out of space due to heavy SQL transaction, suspected at the time to be a custom data collection script for TSM monitoring, although not confirmed. This can now be reproduced...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

support for LTO8 drives

support for LTO8 tape drives
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

TSM Server should show TDP version, not API version.

As it is today, if the user tries to see detailed information about a TDP node on the TSM server, it not shows the TDP version but the API version.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Duration Limit on Node Replication

Our company has a need to use node replication, but we have to restrict its operation to a limited daily window. We would like to see a duration parameter similar in function to the one provided with the expiration command. As things stand now, so...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

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