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Supported IBM Spectrum Protect Backup/Archive Client is needed for Red Hat Version 8

No supported IBM Spectrum Protect Backup/Archive Client for Redhat Version 8 currently exists.Unfortunately, So far there are no news or any estimated time when Spectrum Protect products will support the Redhat V8.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

VMware Tags support in SPP

Current VMware Tags support in SPP need to be enhanced so customer can control backups with VMware Tags. GUI Enhancements:SPP GUI need to show VMs added to a policy with a VMware Tag under Hypervisor/Backup/<vCenter>/SLA Policy, similar to i...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP PLUS: FUNCTION TO OPEN/BROWSE ANY .EDB FILE AND EXTRAC ITS CONTENT INTO PST FILES WITHOUT EXCHANGE/API MMC(GUI)

Develop a function for SPP PLUS software to read raw Exchange .EDB files without interaction with Exchange/API and browse the database content to extract all the mailboxes into PST files simultaneously.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Offer options for excluding the accumulation of some messages related to Safeguarded Copies taken off the GM Secondary in the DSGUI Events

I currently have no visibility on events that occurred more than 3 hours ago on my primary site DS8950F because of a flood of informative " Remote Relationship State Changed" caused by the CGPAUSE needed for the SGC process taking place at seconda...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Externally connect to Management switch to remote support HCI

A customer asks to have the chance to externally connect to the internal switches of Spectum Fusion HCI to remote support the appliance in case Red Hat OCP doesn’t work because two master nodes failed or an administrator blocked the Red Hat OCP ma...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Planned for future release

Update of SPP image in Azure Market Place to a more recent version

The customer is deploying SPP on prem and in Azure Cloud. While they are at 10.1.15 in their on-prem setup, the image in Azure market place is still at 10.1.11, which is outdated. Request to update the Azure Marketplace image to at least 10.1.14
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Needs more information

remove systemV init.d script for DSMCAD

The current packaging of TIVsm-BA includes a symbolic link /etc/init.d/dsmcad -> /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/rc.dsmcad which results in the creation of the directory /etc/init.d if it does not already exist. This is incompatible with the chkc...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Have up to 10 data connections in circle graph

The home screen of the Spectrum Discover web interface shows a circle graph with all data connections. This may be useful if you only have up to 10 data connections but it is confusing with more data connections. It may also cause problems when we...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

Encrypt data on DS8000<->DS8000 Fibre-Channel Remote Copy Links

Encryption of IBMZ<->DS8000 (via FICON FEx16SA and/or FEx32S) is possible. Fibre Channel Endpoint Security provides in-flight protection for all data over FICON and Fibre Channel (FCP) links. But data traffic DS8000<->DS8000 via Fibre...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Include database instance name in SPP report

On Microsoft SQL servers we have multiple databases running on multiple instances. It would be helpful in the SPP database report to indicate which instance on an MSSQL server the backup was for.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

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