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Restrict ProLE access to host-only

ProLE process listens on port 57321/tcp (configurable, may differ) on all IPs and network adapters for connections. One of our customers stumbled upon this during a security scan and considers it to be a security risk. Since in my understanding Pr...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Plus SQL Log backups not snapshotted replicated until DB backups initiated

SQL Log backups in SPP in CIFS share are not snapshotted until the next DB backup and its subsequent snapshot. Similarly, SQL log backup snapshots are only replicated when the SQL DB backup snapshot replication is scheduled.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Plus backups with VMware Storage DRS

Client has VMware Storage DRS enabled. Spectrum Protect Plus checks the previous location of the VM on the datastore. If it has been moved as a result of DRS, it performs a full base backup.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Show catalog restore process

When restoring Spectrum Protect Plus catalog, first it takes us to log-in screen.But we can't log-in because "server is being brought" screen come out we need to wait until it's completed.There is no log or information on the screen. We're waiting...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Oracle 18c support SP 4 DB's

I have a client who is installing Oracle 18c now and have a need for backups They have used Spectrum Protect in the past and want to continue to do so
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Planned for future release

View VM DataStore Size when restoring VM

I would like the ability to see the size of the DataStore I am restoring to from within the Spectrum Protect Plus VM restore GUI. Right now if I want to restore to a datastore I have to open VMWARE to make sure there is enough space available on t...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Fastback-TSM integration wizard. Multiple TSM nodename definition required to achieve different data retentions

It is essentially not a problem with the operation of Fastback. The problem is in the integration between Fastback and TSM. We have the TSM admin centre set up to access the TSM server and the fastback server. I have been using the integration wiz...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Planned for future release

Ethernet Port Support

Need Ethernet support added to "Ports" so we get the same visibility as Fibre Channel Ports do. Hard to run IP Replication or ISCSI and have no visibility.P.S. I would of put a PMR # but your System is not set up to handle the "new" way of things....
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 4 Planned for future release

Signing of Spectrum scale modules

Requesting signing of spectrum scale V5 and higher, reason when installing gpfs on SuSE SLES 15 SP1 cluster fail to be active due to, tracedev.ko module not signed. Latest SLES 15 has a security feature secure boot, that deny unsigned modules to b...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

Need the ability to manually select a vSnap to be used during a backup even if that vSnap is in a site with multiple vSnaps

A customer has asked for the ability to override the automated selection process for where a VM backup is put. This would be for situations where they have multiple vSnaps assigned to a site in SPP but have a desire to make use of a vSnap that has...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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