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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

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

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

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

Automated Restore for Spectrum Protect family of products

Spectrum Protect is lacking any functionality which can automatically verify backup copies, whether they have been created using the BA client, TDP agents or Spectrum Protect Plus. Since Cristie pulled support for SP4VE from their Recovery Simulat...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Push Update for TDP clients

Large SP customer has 10.000 + SP clients. Because of security requirements ( CVE etc.) he has to update its SP clients very often. For BA clients the update process can already be done from the server, but currently this can not be done for TDP c...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

SP Plus interface enhancement: job monitor

In the Job monitor tab, add possiblity to filter entries to easily differentiate administrative tasks and backup tasks . Basically the Type column is already there but cannot be even used to sort the entries.Furthermore another column providing th...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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

OC nodegroup handling

When dealing with node replication there is sometimes a need to group certain nodes in nodegroups i.e. for more frequent replication than for other nodes. I'd like to see a panel where one can create and display nodes grouped by nodegroup and also...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus: Replication Job ends in error when replicating only MSSQL transaction logs

Based on our SLA with the customer we need to synchronize SQL log backups to the secondary vSnap server ( with the replication job) every two hours. The replication job after the backup job is always successful, because volumes for data+log backup...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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