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    dsmcutil updatepw /validate:no doesn't accept FQDN commserver

    dsmcutil updatepw /validate:no doesn't accept a FQDN server name by design. FQDN must be used with CA signed certificates and should therefore be supported.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    DRP Pool -> show internal volumes in vdisk list or on a seperate list

    Producing transparency, not just accounting for the consumption of internal volumes in the pool, but displaying those volumes in the volume list of consumptions.
    about 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Allow Spectrum Protect Plus to restore database to different instance using existing database name

    I backup a database EXAMPLE on one server(prodserver) under instance Prodinst1. I have a test server(testserver) with instance Testinst1. As part of testing, our developers use testserver/TestInst1 database EXAMPLE. SPP backs up the database on pr...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

    SPP dashboard to marked out following the RBAC settings

    In the Dashboard page, we saw the coverage. Although some users are scoped using RBAC functionality, the coverage is not updated in this regard.Same about the policy preview Is there a way to show the user his own perimeter? for exemple DBA team s...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    More control over "disable sessions" for client nodes

    Sometimes it may be necessary to prevent clients from connecting to a Spectrum Protect Server to perform backups. Reasons for this can be, for example, maintenance work on the Spectrum Protect Server, where access to the storage pool is not given....
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    API enhancements for invoicing/billing

    In the web gui for Scale you can easily get the accounts and used storage under the "Object / Accounts" button. But there is no simple way to retrieve this information using api/rest. (There is not even a scheduled report function for it). This is...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Repeat email alerts are often indistinguishable from "new" email alerts. Add the word "Reminder" to subject line.

    The SVC will send reminder notifications about errors/events that have not been "Fixed" every 24 hours. When these reminder emails are received, the text in the subject line is exactly the same as the original email notification. This duplication ...
    about 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Operations Center does not allow a Container-Copy to be defined on a Directory Pool which Node Reps to a server using Cloud

    When a Directory Container Pool is using Node Replication to replicate to a server which stores received data in a Cloud Container Pool, the Operations Center GUI does not all a Copy-Container Pool to be defined to allow a PROTECT STGPOOL to tape ...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Need Plus to "recognize" cloned Oracle Database, keep it on the SLA to continue backups, possibly with tagging, or backup of all databases from a host with the option to exclude.

    Regular cloning for Oracle Databases for patching process, which also moves the binaries, but maintains the inventory. Patched clone is then set as the production database. Need Plus to recognize the new Oracle as the production, keep it with the ...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    IBM SPP Support for Non-AD LDAP servers

    IBM SPP to support for Non-AD LDAP servers such as OpenLDAP
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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