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    Design change to avoid deletion of Backup Data from a malicious hacker, mentally disturbed or very angry at his workplace

    The following is a suggestion to ensure that Backup Data cannot be deleted by malicious hackers, internal Backup administrators who are very angry at their workplace or mentally disturbed. The proposal is to create a minimum of 5 Backup Admin Appr...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

    SPP permits to install aditional software as monitoring.

    Customer needs to install a monitoring software in the SPP and Vsnap Appliances. This is an important requirement to move to production this environment.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Connection to CLOUD through of DNS ALIAS not IP FIXED

    In the configuration of CLOUD in TS7770C, in the GUI, the URL what should be used , is a "IP FIXED" (for example, HTTPS://192.xxx.xxx.xx) . It's not possible use a "DNS" name. I think is more versatile the use of the DNS ALIAS vs IP FIXED. I think...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Feature so you can have managed SP instances when using TAG based vmware backup

    We have quite a few SP servers that are all managed, but now we have to stop that because when doing vmware backup to a Spectrum protect server it can not longer be managed. This is due to the fact that with 8.1.4 the vmgui admin user will update ...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    dsmcutil updatepw /validate:no doesn't accept FQDN commserver

    dsmcutil updatepw /validate:no doesn't accept a FQDN server name by design. FQDN must be used with CA signed certificates and should therefore be supported.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    LTO9 drive relative humidity value

    LTO9 drive reports snmpt-trap alerts if it's relative humidity value is out of range. This relative humidity value of LTO9 drive should be visible on TS4300 graphical user interface.
    over 3 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    SVC/Storwize doesn't generate errors on certain conditions that are serious problems

    Certain types of errors on the SVC and Storwize family of products that represent an actual problem with the system are flagged as warnings. Among these are error 1138, which represents an external loss of power. This is an event that warrants cus...
    over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

    Working as designed -- Content of dsm.opt file disappeared?

    Content of dsm.opt file can be lost
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Ability to encrypt and store dsmadmc user credentials in a local file

    By default the TSM baclient encrypts node user credentials in a locally stored file. Unfortunately this functionality is not present with admin user credentials when using the Admin Client (dsmadmc). In order to automate dsmadmc commands within sc...
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Allow deletion of csmadmin local ID

    The csmadmin local ID comes back after being deleted (post server reboot). It is also not possible to delete this ID. Please allow the customer to delete this ID permanently.
    over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

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