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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

SNMP Query support for Storwise V3700

The V3700 SNMP Implementation only pushes management/monitoring information. We have a large OEM Opportunity that requires the ability to pull SNMP data for automated management purposes. SNMP exposes management data in the form of variables on th...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

allow group pools to be used as the DEFAULT placement policy

If the default placement policy. If a disk pool is allowed as the default rule there should never be a "no free space error" when attempting to write a new file.
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

dsmc query backup -detail show all volume IDs

dsmc query backup xxx -detail only display one volume id, please display all volumes IDs or volume_names used by xxx objects.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Working OOtB Spectrum Protect Client for Ubuntu

System: SpectrumProtect Client for Ubuntu Linux.Actor: System administrator requesting to share some improvements with the world. Solution:-----------If IBM's .deb packages would1. use more features that the .deb format offers,2. be downloadable f...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

TDP MS Exchange restore performance issue

"After the talk with development, we could change our incremental restore logic. At restore time, we know which backups we need to restore. We could cache it if it's all in the same restore command. This would be a pretty big re-write, but we thin...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

Proactive alert on backup policy change or modify in IBM spectrum protect server for prod

To avoid data loss, IBM spectrum protect to Alert or warn proactively on the production server
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

BA client bind to specific IP

We need to run multiple DSMC SCHED on the same windows machine and we use sessioninit=serveronly. Due to firewall restrictions we are required to use only 1 single port. For each DSMC SCHED we have a separate IP and defined tcpclientaddress in dsm...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

resync backup after loss of the cbt

The vmware backup mechanism is based on the vmware CBT to make incremental backups. After an esx crash, the cbt is reset and a FULL backup is made (new base backup). a resync backup feature will be helpful this would take a lot of time to resync b...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable Case Sensitivity in SMB Protocol

Externalize Samba Option on mmsmb to enable Case sensitivity for customer.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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