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Connection to CLOUD through of DNS ALIAS not IP FIXED

In the configuration of CLOUD in TS7770C, in the GUI, the URL what should be used , is a "IP FIXED" (for example, HTTPS://192.xxx.xxx.xx) . It's not possible use a "DNS" name. I think is more versatile the use of the DNS ALIAS vs IP FIXED. I think...
8 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Under review

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus - Oracle DB support on Windows

Small customers use Windows platform for Oracle DB's and current support is only for Oracle DB running on Linux. SPP in not suitable for them and cases are lost. Veeam has such support.
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

dsmc - more producer threads per filesystem

Modern SAN storage should not be limited to one producer thread per client filesystem during backups, nor 4 producer threads per DSMC instance. Requesting:A) RESOURCEUTIL max value should be higher, perhaps 20. B) New option, RESTHREADSPERFS, to s...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

TSM Client Support for ZFS on Linux filesystems

ZFS has been ported to Linux distributions, namely, Redhat Linux and other SysV environments. This RFE proposes to enable support for ZFS on Linux filesystems as a natively supported filesystem for backup and archive via the standard Linux TSM BA ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Support for Azure Blob Immutable Storage

Cyber Resiliency of backup data using immutable storage needs to be possible using Azure Blob Immutable Storage, both in Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus, as both products are capable of storing data in Azure Blob storage.ICOS immutable ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Enabling etcd Key Value Store Backups in Fusion Backup

Realized this is a duplicate request with: https://ibm-sys-storage.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/SPFUS-I-70 OCP operational best practices recommend protecting etcd if you are responsible for the availability of the Kubernetes cluster and the built-in etcd ...
8 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Display grace period of 30 minutes between 2 log collections in task failure message

When attempting to collect logs from a storage subsystem, a user can received the following message when the task fails: " Uploading system logs for system XXX to ticket TS0123456789. The log package for the device with serial number YYY for ticke...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Have Spectrum Protect Plus integrate with Automated Ticket System

The customer has a desire for the alert system to interface with the Automated Ticketing System. This would allow that system to assign and notify individuals to respond to incidents on SPP
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for TLS on SMTP servers (Office 365)

If a customer using office365, mails from SPP using office 365 can't be sent, because TLS SMTP is not supported.Support for TSL SMTP is needed.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

Add a link to the RFE (Request For Enhancements) community in the SPP UI

Add a link to the RFE (Request For Enhancements) community in the SPP UI
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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