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Replication job shows as error

SPP shows a replication job as a failure, but only because there was nothing to replicate not because of an actual error. Perhaps the error message type could be changed here so the job doesn't fail.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Implement CRLs for SSL/TLS communications for ISP

DoD customer implementing IBM Spectrum Protect. Reviewing usage of PKI with IBM Spectrum Protect Server and Client. DoD requires the use of DoD provided Root Certificates and Certificate Revocation Lists. Currently IBM Spectrum Protect supports th...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

SNMPv3 support in GPFS GUI

Morgan Stanley is asking for upgrade to SNMPv3 (GPFS GUI alerts)
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Customization of Client Auto-deployment Schedule

We would like to modify the auto deploy schedule in order to make it successful in our environment.In our infra, we do have multiple nodes configured for same host, hence multiple CAD services are running.After version 8.1.11, we are unable to sta...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

Different retention policies (Time) for SAP HANA Backup

customers wants to use of existing SAP HANA backup data to satisfy business needs for weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly data collections without using different nodes for the identical machine
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

ODBC Enhancements for TSM 6.3

To enable access to data from the TSM Database, TSM until Version 5 enabledODBC using a TSM administrative user with limited authority. Since TSM6,ODBC is via the DB2 ODBC connect.The TSM ODBC connect documentation only describes TSM ODBC access u...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Time Machine over SMB

Since the last OSX release, Apple has deprecated they're "AFP" protocol and want to use SMB for everything, TimeMachine included.In order to have a SMB share working with TimeMachine, it need to complain some specs. Here are the specs: https://dev...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Extend "deactivate data" to other applications, not only limited to Oracle

Currently, the "deactivate data" command is limited to Oracle data. It should be expanded to include the other application data such as DB2, SQL, etc. Also add the filespace option to the command.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Centralized reporting for Tivoli FlashCopy Manager

We would like to request a centralized reporting facility for Tivoli FlashCopy Manager, specifically FlashCopy Manager for Exchange 2010 first, if possible (although all applications managed by FCM would benefit). This reporting facility would be ...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

connect to DB2 directly due to more complex SQL queries

We have the requirement to connect to DB2 directly due to more complex SQL queries (readonly, so only select) and have some questions: - If we run a pod with our Python code in the Spectrum Discover namespace in OpenShift can we add the secret "db...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Discover 4 Not under consideration

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