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Storage Protect Family

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server support on windows server 2019

Windows server 2019 is widely used and users/customers expecting support for spectrum protect server and operation center on this platform
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Allow custom configuration of ciphers used by a Spectrum Protect server for TLS connections

Spectrum Protect servers use TLS for incoming client and administrative sessions over the netowrk. An incoming TLS connection is offered a number of ciphers to use for the TLS connection by the Spectrum Protect server. Whilst this list of ciphers ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Allow file-indexing without sudo(root) on Linux VM's or local admin id on Windows VM's

System: Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.8Request: Need new feature on SPP to allow file-indexing on on Windows VM's with out a local admin account on the VM and on Linux VM's without granting sudo(root) all access on the VM.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Pct Util calculation needs to either show more decimal places, or otherwise somehow scale based on larger possible volume sizes

Regarding case TS012335757, due to the large size of the volumes, Pct Util was showing 0.0, but there was actually data stored there. This led to confusion over why the volumes were not returning to scratch. As an example, 2.5GB on a 1TB tape show...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Global Exclude List

We are after a Global Exclude list of VMs that we can use to exclude VMs across ALL SLA Policies in SPP
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

command approval- Non approver can promote himself as "approver"

The existing admin who was not configured as Approver can issue the command "update admin admin1 cmdapprover=yes" and promote himself as approver and approve for the his / others pending tasks. Its violating the purpose of having such feature.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Operation Center - Security Notification Enhancement

Hello Team, Looking for some enhancement for Operation center, Security Notification Feature
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

SLA schedules are removed to early from ISPP

When the last VM or Database is removed from a SLA policy ISPP will also remove the complete schedule for this SLA.Unfortunately this also includes all post processes like replication or archiving, which means the backup data will not be copied to...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Support of CentOS for SPfVE as Datamover

Due to licensing issues, we would like to use CentOS as the operating system. Unfortunately we could not find the support in the support matrix.After consultation with the support I was informed that this support is unfortunately not considered.Si...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Add TDP for Oracle to Retention Sets type of data that can be included

Currently, retention sets allow TDP for SQL, B/A Client, TDP for Mail, DP for VE (both VMware and Hyper-V) but only TDP for DB - Oracle is NOT supported and this is reallly needed for long term retention - there's a class of backups that is comple...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration