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    Usability and Performance enhancements needed for very large filespace replication

    There are 3 major problems currently with replication of very large filespaces.1) The initial replication and ongoing replication of data for nodes with very large filespaces (100 million+ objects) and with a large amount of data (10+TB) works ver...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    excel report output without nice formatting would be better

    The reporting feature of Spectrum protect plus has two output formats. PDF and Excel.To work with the data in bulk, excel is the preferred output, but it has too much formatting applied. I need one line outputs. Not the server name on one line and...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    SPP SQL restore should have an option to restore to a different directory

    There is no option to restore a SQL backup to a different directory. IBM support tested it and only option is to choose a different db name which will be unique and not affect the Sql instance already there.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    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...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Planned for future release

    dsmj client for zLinux (S390)

    On zLinux/s390 there is no GUI client since upgrade to Spectrum Protect server version 8.1.2+ (7.1.8).WEB client is not working any more and dsmj client is missing on zLinux OS. We need GUI on zLinux platfrom (WEB cleint or dsmj cleint)
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    SP / SPP integrated with CyberArk

    Many customers are using cyberark to protect the access to the systems. it is a requirement from a large couple of customers.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    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...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

    Show dedup and compression ratio per VM

    We can see total deduplication and compression ratio from SPP UI.This information is about all the backups taken and not detailed.Also we can see backup data per VM from "VM Backup Utilization" report.We should be able to see deduplication and com...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

    Backup Solution for Oracle 19c

    We have to be able to backup Oracle 19c
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Planned for future release

    Introduce full support for CentOS as a client

    Introduce full support for CentOS clients operating with TSM server. CentOS is binary compatible with RHEL and we have few problems with the clients other than getting support for minor bug fixes. Getting support can be difficult, especially when ...
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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