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Storage Protect Family

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encryptkey with LAN-free does not work on Spectrum Protect v8.1.6

End User upgrade their IBM Spectrum Protect to version 8.1.6. They requested to have client encryption to fulfill their security requirements. However, the client encryption function that supported before is told no longer working now ("encryptkey...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

add a NetApp Snapshot based backup and restore functionality to SPP

Addition of a function to secure NetApp file server with SPP on vSnap server. This should be done on the basis of NetApp snapshots. The feature should be able to replace the current Spectrum Protect feature for NetApp data protection at the file l...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

ANR0991I alert/notification implementation

As you can see in the support case ID there is no possibility to receive alerts or notifications for the ANR0991I when Spectrum protect server s are shutdown. In the operational center the possibility seems to be there but it's triggering nothing....
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Automatic update check should be disabled

We want the current versions not to be searched automatically when we enter the administrative interface, A button can be placed for this and only those who want to upgrade over the internet can use this feature.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Deligate tasks (migration) to data mover servers

When IBM TSM is used for archiving petabytes of data for long term, massive data migration is expected specially when changing media technology. Today, the migration process can only happen on the server, and thus creates a huge load on the server...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

SPP should support running different code levels on the SPP server and vSnap servers during migration/upgrades

SPP customers running a single SPP server with many vSnap servers need to be able to upgrade the SPP code in the environment in a controlled/phased manner. This means that they need to upgrade the SPP server and vSnap servers at different times an...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect backup of massive sparse file /var/log/lastlog on linux

From the customer: I found five RedHat-based Linux clients that were ultimately waiting for tape mounts because they were trying to back up the massive sparse file /var/log/lastlog. This file reports as being 480GB in size, even though it is actua...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Warning message in actlog when active log exceeds threshold

When active log exceeds threshold of 75% warning message ADM10501W (Health indicator "Log Utilization" ("db.log_util") breached the "upper" warning threshold of "75 %" with value "75 %" on "database" "xxxx.TSMDB1") is issued to db2diag log but the...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

add support for PowerHA AIX cluster configuration for File system backup and restore

DCU (Customer) did a CDM snapshot across the 2 AIX servers. Then a situation came up where they had a need to do a restore and it failed with the exception “com.catalogic.ecx.ibmsvcprovider.exception.IBMSVCExecCommandException: CMMVC9071E: Cannot ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

SCDM - RFE title Granular LDAP queries than trying to scan in the entire AD Domain.

Storage Copy Data Management - We currently cannot handle scale for the amount of LDAP groups that are being attempted to be loaded for a case. Based on the error displaying an "out of memory" error message, it appears that the issue is related to...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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