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    Node lock

    Currently node is locked on first incorrect password. Problem is if the user wants a new password and we reset the node password on the server and inform user of the password, the user need to start gui/cli to enter new password. But the first thi...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    For Storage Protect Backup/Archive client add a dsmcad systemd unit file that is instance aware.

    Sometimes it is useful to run multiple dsmcad instances on a single host. Each will backup different file spaces to different tsm backup nodes. To accomplish this additional dsmcad systemd unit files must be created. systemd unit files have this t...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Under review

    gskcrypt64-8.0.55 rpm packages require invalid binary files /bin/ln and /bin/sh

    For a long time RHEL has provided both /bin/X and /usr/bin/X even though the packages only install /usr/bin/X This is true for RHEL7, RHEL8 and RHEL9 The gskcrypt64 package should have been changed a long time ago to require /usr/bin/X components ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Under review

    cert_distribute.sh should allow customers to input path to dsmcert.kdb file

    In the current cert_distribute.sh implementations as level 8.1.21 and 8.1.22 it is not possible to specify the path to the dsmcert.kdb file. The cert_distribute.sh script has a logic searching for the dsmcert.kdb file (function getWindowsCertKDBPa...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

    cert_distribute.sh script should allow customized new client cert file names

    In the current implementations, the cert_distribute.sh shell script at levels 8.1.21 and 8.1.22 is using random file names for the newly created client cert (crt) file. For customer environments with multiple, maybe hundreds of Storage Protect ser...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

    Add Support for OpenSource DBs like PSQL, MySQL

    As an Enterprise Backup solution, Storage Protect should have the ability to integrate with very widely used DB systems such as PostgreSQL (Used in Enterprises as much as in smaller business and private environments). Storing Backups using the DB ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

    Support for Active Directory Item restore

    Today does IBM Storage Protect Backup-Archive Client only support to protect Microsoft Active Directory and do a total Disaster Recovery of Microsoft Active Directory. If we want to restore only one item in the Active Directory to get back from a ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

    Directory Container Erasure Coding

    I have multiple smaller customers where we only have 1 Storage Protect server and are not using any tape to be able to run protect storage pool. This is little bit of a risk and also we put all our data in to one solution and if we get bad contain...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

    Access to AWS S3 buckets with object lock enabled via a VPC Endpoint

    For security reasons we must access AWS S3 buckets via a VPC Endpoint. We also require that the S3 bucket has object lock enabled. We have set this up and tested it and it does not currently work. We are able to read/write to the S3 bucket via a V...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Multi-namespace Crash Consistency / Consistency Groups

    Today, Consistency Groups as supported with Scale/GDP ensure that all Pods in a single namespace can be snapshotted in a crash-consistent way. A financial services customer is asking for consistent snapshots spanning PV/PVCs in separate namespaces.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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