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Storage Protect Family

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Enable more than 1 LDAP server for authentication because it is a single point of failure

System: SPP server 10.1.8Feature: Currently the SPP server only allows for 1 LDAP server entry. This is a single point of failure. There is no redundancy, if that single LDAP server is down there is no way for the team to log-in, because we do not...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

LDAP Group Authorization for ADMIN users

IBM Storage Protect is actually the only product in our environment that is not allowing to map LDAP groups to specific authorization levels. How should this work?You would for example define on the SP server in dsmserv.opt the LDAP url including ...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect 8.1.7 Retrule for NDMP data

Client have requirement to retain the NDMP data for long term retention. We have upgraded the Spectrum Protect servers from 8.1.6 to 8.1.7 and tried to enable the retrule for NDMP data. But unfortunately that feature is not enabled for NDMP /datam...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

DRM Manager should support Container Pool

DRM must support container pool.There is no information for container pool in the drm planfile. We need information which offsite/onsite tapes we need to recover container pools. We can checkout the tapes with drm commands but have no information ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Create, modify and remove TSM scripts

We want the functionality to create, modify and remove TSM/SP scripts from the Operation Center. This was a standard functionality in Tivoli Intergrated Portal but is not availible in the OC
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Use proxy server for accessing IBM updates

To enhance security, and keep access to internet to a minimum, a proxy server should be used to obtain fixes and updates. This will allow for automatic updates for systems that are more locked down than usual.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Needs more information

OC License History

OC already has reports from FrontEnd and BackEnd licensing, however many customers would like to be able to track the historical consumption of their licenses, to allow a better forecast of how much they have been using.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Provide option to prevent object-splitting on tape

Having clients archiving and restoring directly to and from tape we're trying to have the least possible amount of tape mounts. However at the end of a lot of tapes the last file gets split when EOV occurs. There should be an option to consider a ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus support for Db2 Purescale

Customer who has majority of database residing on Db2 of which 90%+ of those databases are Db2 Purescale requires support for this platform in Spectrum Protect Plus.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Provide a "number of days" parameter so the "SUR Occupancy data" can be collected less than the set value of once a week.

THis is very valuable for BackEnd Licensing purposes. As example, we show to be 6 TB out of compliance, but in the last 5 days we have deleted 11 TB. Yet we still show as being out of compliance because the "SUR Occupancy data" is so far out of da...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

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