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IBM Spectrum protect support for Huawei cloud

Currently in IBM reference, spectrum protect only support the following list of cloud object storage https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22000915.There are huawei cloud customer that wanted to see that they want to use spectrum prote...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

lift the SUDO wrappers limitations

Allianz is requesting from IBM ESS product the following a) lift the SUDO wrappers limitations outlined in following statementsSudo wrappers are not supported on clusters where one or more of the nodes is running the Windows operating system.Sudo ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Future consideration

Open LDAP support

LDAP authetication is only supported with :ADIBM directory server It is possible to support LDAP authetication with Open LDAP ?
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Backup of Cloud Apps

More and more applications are available online in the cloud such Exchange Online, SharePoint online, Dropbox and OneDrive Business.This areas do many think it's including backup, but the backup is limited and not even close to many customers SLAs...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM VE 6.4 support double-byte VM host name

In case of double-byte like Japanese VM host name, VMware off-host backups using vStorage for Data Protection API was stop backup as error. Could you fix this limitation of Single Byte character. Request environment:vSphere 4.1 TSM Server V6.3.3 W...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect LDAPUser Automated Password Updates

We require a LDAPUser interfaces with AD to obtain automated password update or maybe uses a token solution for regular automated password updates to the Spectrum Protect Servers.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

If primaray server hang, baclients tried to connect on secondary replication server and never come back on primary.

If primary replication server hang, clients tried to connect on the secondary and never come back on secondary until CAD service isrestarted. I think this should not append and clients should automaticly reconnect on primary. Also, this is for bac...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

include tape pool in eeadm drive list

In eeadm drive list command, try to include options to print a more information, like: - Include a column with Node Name instead of Node ID for clarity- Include a column with the tape pool name of the tape mounted
almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

Provide mechanism to choose whether webhook messages events field may carry an array of events or just a single event

Spectrum Scale is capable of sending webhooks to recipients. These hooks contain information about events and such. According to Scale’s documentation, this is the json payload of such hooks: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale/5.1.5?topic=...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Support for Ubuntu

Redhat have now killed CentOS and there is really no option to get a cheap operating system for non critical application and small operations then Ubuntu Server or Fedora Server. And if a non critical application like IBM Spectrum Protect Operatio...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

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