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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

TSM4VE-Request to change local user to LDAP and AD user to do File Level Restore from TSM4VE Snapshot Backup on the Linux VM

Currently to do file level restore using File Restore UI from TSM for VE Snapshot backup, File Restore UI require local user of the Linux Virtual Server, But we would like to see a change so that a LDAP or AD user can perform restore using File Re...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Adding a vSnap to 2 SPP appliances

The current Spectrum Protect Plus topology allows only one management (Spectrum Protect Plus VM) appliance to connect vSnaps.We should be able to add a vSnap to 2 different Spectrum Protect Plus appliances.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Please sign Insights with an IBM certificate - security apps block Insights binaries

Security software like Bit9 block Insights binaries. Insights binaries are blocked even after whitelisted by security admins because Insights files are copied to different folder than the installation folder. Also, automatic updates are not possib...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

2 TB limit for VMware VMDK file backup

VMDK files with 2 TB or more cannot be backed up by the TSM client. The limit seems to be hardcoded. When will TSM support VMDK files with 2 TB or more?
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Detailed License Report - Spectrum Protect Plus

The license report in SPP is not self-explanatory.Its very easy to get confused on the returned results. It would be a great help, if it was possible to expand the sources, so it was possible to see what VM's and what application instances the res...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Utilization percentage of areas used by the product to store indexes should be displayed in the main product GUI. Not displaying this in a simple and readily available form can result in granular recoveries not being possible

If the utilization for the areas containing the lucern database (/data3 by default) was displayed within the main GUI it would be much simpler to keep track of issues that may affect recovery options further down the line. This would benefit all b...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Improve AFM to handle hard links correctly

As per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale/5.1.2?topic=limitations-afm-afm-dr support for hard links in AFM is very constrained. This is especially problematic for the AFM data migration use case outlined here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/s...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Linux autostart two Spectrum Protect scheduler services using init.d to autostart services for two nodes on the same server

The Spectrum Protect scheduler services doesn't auto start scheduler services post reboot for two nodenames.. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-protect/8.1.6?topic=spso-setting-client-scheduler-process-run-as-background-task-start-automatically...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect for VE - Hyper-V, Change default restore location in MMC

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment - Hyper-V v8.1.8 on Hyper-V 2016: Is it possible to change the default restore location inside the MMC GUI when doing a Virtual Maschine Restore? If yes, how? Right now the default location (C:\ProgramData\...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

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