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Spectrum Protect PLUS support RedHat v6.4

Important Telco company (Vodefaone) need to support RedHat v6.4 with Spectrum Protect PLUS.They have some internal applications and it's impossible to upgrade RH version.The objective it's to protect (with SPP) Oracle 11g.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Add virtualmountpoint support for Spectrum Protect for Space Management on Spectrum Scale servers

Please allow Spectrum Protect for Space Management in a Spectrum Scale environment to operate on virtualmountpoints. This means support in the following scenario: 1) A large Spectrum Scale file system is split into multiple smaller filesets. 2) Ea...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Not under consideration

Tape errors recorded only in Volumes table and not Libvolumes table

TSM only records read and write errors in the volumes table, which is reset every time a volume is returned to scratch.It would be advantageous for errors to also be recorded against the library volumes entry, which would not be reset when volumes...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Production restore folder

"Restore in production mode if Vcenter is down" option works but this restore creates a directory in the datastore with the name of VM. If the VM folder is not identical to VM name, the production restore doesn't maitain the original name.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Can not replicate nodes based on policy domain membership

IBM Spectrum Protect Server v8.1.9.300:Can not replicate nodes based on policy domain membership Currently, the replicate node command works on node names, lists of node names, wildcards of node names, node groups, or lists of node groups. We wish...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Need to track configuration changes to avoid accidental or malicious changes on the configuration

In Spectrum Protect is no mechanism implemented to avoid accidental or malicious changes of configuration when logged into the adminstration client as an administrator. To achieve a higher protection for this case scenario we would need a mechanis...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

SPP - Support for Centrify dzdo where sudo is called

Spectrum Protect Plus has a requirement for the Linux sudo command to be present for installation and configuration tasks. My customer has a security requirement where sudo commands are not allowed. Customer uses Centrify dzdo to provide the eleva...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Move Data from old copy pool to new copy pool

In order to handle tape media upgrades or tape recording format upgrades, customers need the ability to MOVE data from an old copy pool to a new copy pool
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

possibility to tag all tcp/ip package with QoS tags

We have problems that the backup and recoveries has an impact of business traffic on remote locations.Especially if the backups and recoveries takes so long time that they exceed backup window and extend on to normal business hours.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Security non compliance with Windows VM self-service file-level restore requiring a Domain administrator account

Spectrum Protect for VE Self-Service file-level restore uses the domain administrator credentials to access network shares on the remote virtual machine.This is seen in many cases as a gab in the security and a risk of security non compliance for ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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