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Storage Protect Family

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dsmserv maintenance does not disable storage rules

Starting the SP server in maintenance mode is a helpful vehicle after software updates and problem determination phases. It disables all internal server processing and client sessions except of preventing storage rules being executed. Disabling st...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Needs more information

Backup and restore/recreate local defined permissions of VMs using Spectrum Protect Plus

Spectrum Protect Plus does not inventory permissions defined locally for VMs. Therefore, these authorizations cannot be restored in the context of a restore and must be recreated manually. Spectrum Protect Plus should be able to restore all permis...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

To have a possiblity to disable certain ciphers on BA

As one of our customers is operating an SP environment, they are regularly check with PEN-tests. And each year the find the BA to be possible vulnerable to CVE-2013-0169 (LUCKY13) as there are CBC ciphers available on the "schemode=prompted port" ...
29 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

File list limited for 1000 lines using restore node commnad

Hi team, we are using restore node NODE_NAME /FS FILELIST=FILE:/list_files_in_HEX.txt nametype=HEXadecimal. We are restoring data from NAS node. Customer is using France Diacritics in DIR and File names which impact filler on NAS side. Filler is u...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

ACTIVE DIRECTORY BACKUP FOR PROTECT PLUS

One of the most asked feature by business partners and customers is support of Active Directory backup and granular recovery of AD with Protect Plus. Almost every our competitor has AD backup granular recovery of its objects.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow data-lock cloud containers to be reclaimed

I would like to have the feature "Reclaim Containers" available when using datalock stgpools. Looking at my SPOC console, I will have 263.3TB of data that could be reclaimed from my cloud storage pool. Since this is not supported because I'm using...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

After TLS certificate expires, IBM Spectrum Protect Server automatically renews the previous certificate distributed to nodes.

IBM Spectrum Protect Server TLS certificate expires 10 years after the server instance is created. Immediately after the expiration, all client nodes are unable to connect to the server. One of my customers provides a backup service in their priva...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Multiple Storage Protect Server DB backup on one tape

Currently SP only supports storing one internal DB backup per volume. If using tape (as recommended) e.g. LTO9 this results in using a 18 TB tape volume for storing only 100 GB database backup. Running 20 instance and doing 2 DB backup per day kee...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Configure TSM4VE without SP Admin Access

IBM Storage Protect is a popular Service Provider product and it is possible to buy backup functionality using IBM Storage Protect as a backup engine. But all of them is created to only run old legacy backup like installing client in the operating...
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Multi session restore from container pool should result in load balanced sessions

Technote http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21993961 documents how to tweak the SDNQRSESSSIZE parameter for multi session restores, however the sessions created are not load balanced. This can result in the restore sessions not being...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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