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Storage Protect Family

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    Allow more than 1450 characters into SQL statement used in reports section

    Hello, Right now, we are limited to 1450 characters into an SQL statement when generating custom reports from Operation Center. This is an issue when the SQL statement is longer than that. I would like to have that limitation being removed. From t...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Under review

    We would like to be able to backup AWS S3 buckets

    We have many AWS S3 buckets that users update every day. Versioning is very expensive as there is no dedup/compression and this is especially true if you replicate across AWS regions. We would like to be able to backup and restore files to S3 like...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

    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" ...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

    command line for the admin console gui for IBM Storage Copy Data Management software

    We would like to automate the backup of the Catalog Manager in the Backup Catalog . Currently we need to log into the gui and click backup daily. We might miss this over weekends and would be a big issue if we restore an old catalog. We have used ...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Under review

    Storage Protect client and possibly server Linux on ARM (ampere computing)

    We are evaluation running more workloads on ampere computing (containers but also std vms)I would like to use storage protect client for backup/archiving as step1 and also interested in the serverside if We cant run AIX or Linux on power then the ...
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

    Need better job and resource management feature to avoid multiple simultaneous job start upon SPP restart after unexpected outage

    The current IBM Storage Protect Plus design makes that, upon appliance restart after an unexpected outage, all pending jobs are started simultaneously. This can overwhelm the appliance available resouces if numerous jobs are pending. As an example...
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

    We need application consistent Safeguarded Copy protect for SAP R/3

    We have multiple customers that are still using SAP R/3 for a while before switching to SAP HANA. Since ERP is part of their minimum viable company, we need a way to safeguard this application.
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Under review

    cert_distribute.sh should allow customers to input path to dsmcert.kdb file

    In the current cert_distribute.sh implementations as level 8.1.21 and 8.1.22 it is not possible to specify the path to the dsmcert.kdb file. The cert_distribute.sh script has a logic searching for the dsmcert.kdb file (function getWindowsCertKDBPa...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

    cert_distribute.sh script should allow customized new client cert file names

    In the current implementations, the cert_distribute.sh shell script at levels 8.1.21 and 8.1.22 is using random file names for the newly created client cert (crt) file. For customer environments with multiple, maybe hundreds of Storage Protect ser...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

    Add Support for OpenSource DBs like PSQL, MySQL

    As an Enterprise Backup solution, Storage Protect should have the ability to integrate with very widely used DB systems such as PostgreSQL (Used in Enterprises as much as in smaller business and private environments). Storing Backups using the DB ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

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