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IBM SPP Support for Non-AD LDAP servers

IBM SPP to support for Non-AD LDAP servers such as OpenLDAP
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Dump of login information (auditlog) from the Spectrum Protect Plus application to monitor it in Rsyslog

Hi, we have enabled the Rsyslog, to monitor the accesses (login) to the Spectrum protect Plus, for the Linux server we already have it working, but for the login in the application there is no option, since this information is only in the GUI, and...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Flashcopy Manager Snapshot Support for Spectrum Virtualize in a Hyperswap Relationship

Currently FCM snapshot support is only established for Spectrum Virtualize within SVC in a stretched cluster setup. We need support for snapshots for the whole Flashsystem/SVC family within a Hyperswap relation, adressing IBM AIX, VMware, Linux an...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

Increase tagname character limit from 32 to 64 characters or more

We are using Spectrum Discover in a research and academia environment. Whenlooking towards how we will curate and manage tags as the number of includedprojects grows, we see that the tagname limit of 32 characters is a problem.When extracting exif...
about 3 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Future consideration

Bind DNS out of date software version

Agency is required to update to the current stable versions of BIND DNS. Internet Systems Consortium no longer issues security updates for out-of-date versions of BIND DNS.
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Future consideration

SQL Service User per SQL instance

We're currently having a customer who wants to backup multiple SQL Failover Cluster Instances but don't want to specify only one service user for Spectrum Protect Plus which has all the sysadmin rights over all instances running in the SQL Cluster...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP: Multiple LDAP servers required

We are using SPP 10.1.13 for backup of VM machines of customers with some project manager requiring access and some customers (vm owners) to be able to start single file restore. Our customers requires to have more than one LDAP server authenticat...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect and ZFS support in Linux x86_64

We need to backup files in ZFS fs in a system with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.5 installed using IBM Spectrum Protect BA client.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

DSCLI does not have any PPRC validation

While trying to initialize disks with ICKDSF, all defined address failed in Extended Long Busy state after a DSCLI configuration change on MGM defined sessions.The change was done on SSID definition and it did not follow correct definition rules s...
almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

ELB not managed by TPC/R

For an effective and convenient management of a DS8000 replication environment, it would be very useful if TPC-R could manage ELB timeout for every LCU/LSS in a MM/MGM environment. In fact, a clear display of this parameter for the session (e.g. t...
over 11 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

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