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Storage Protect Family

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Spectrum Copy Data Managment: SAP HANA (system) connectivity should support SSH keys

As of today SCDM needs "user/password" credentials for its SAP HANA (system) connectivity. As this a security risk (and not allowed at our company anymore) the product should support SSH keys as system credentials. Since SCDM already has this for ...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Add Support of Snapdiff API v3

Dear developers NetApp provides a protocol or API called SnapDiff. Spectrum Protect currently supports the API in the Release v1. Now that v2 and v3 of SnapDiff are already available (as a REST API), NetApp has discontinued support for v1 in curre...

move data from one bucket to a new one

the custmer has created a new bucket with ecryption and he migrated DATA from the no encyption bucket to this new one , but on the TSM server ,we couldn't update the bucket name on the container stprage pool, we even couldn't migrate the data from...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Introduce Timeout in DSMCAD

By default, dsmcad doesn't have any time out value. Post Rapid Force NVA 6.6.128 upgrade, the connection of NVA Scan is not closing as expected. Post Scan of TSM Client on dynamic or dedicated dsmcad port, the connection stays as active, dsmcad se...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

Minimal Support for Oracle Linux and DP4Oracle

We have been requested to protect Oracle Databases running onOS: Oracle linux Server 7.8DB Server: Oracle Database 19c Enterprise Edition Release 19.0.0.0.0 opened a case in look for minimal support but is not available.Oracle says "Oracle Linux i...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Delivered

Add SHA256 checksum to Passport Advantage packages

Please Add SHA256 checksum to Passport Advantage webpage image file details.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Delivered

SPP archive to on-prem COS

Archive to on-prem COS: Our team uses Spectrum Protect Plus for VMWare incremental backups to COS vaults without issue. In one policy, incremental backups are taken daily and kept for 7 days. The archive feature in any SPP policy only allows for a...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

date format in SP Operations center

Please add options to change date/time format in IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center.Now there is only US date/time format (am/pm)
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Delivered

SPP CA certificate update using CLI

Providence Healthcare is requesting the the CA Certificate can be updated via the CLI on the system.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Fix Label Libvolume to report failure when encountering errors instead of failing to work yet reporting Success.

Label Libvolume processes can encounter errors but report Completed Successfully
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered