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Storage Protect Family

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    Update Certificate without restarting Storage Protect instance

    Currently if the certificate is going to be replaced by a new one, this operation requires an instance stop and start. The certificate insertion into the certificate DB can be done at any time, also setting it as the default certificate. But the i...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Remove unecessary QUERY JOB errors from actlog due to running servermon

    When servermon is activated using the parameter ALWAYSONSERVERMON on, the message “ANR0213E QUERY JOB: No jobs found” appears in actlog every 10 minutes. This cannot be disabled, even if you delete or comment out the entry QUERY JOB FORMAT=detail ...
    7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

    Upgrade of ISP4VE 8.1.23 to 8.1.23.x deletes key.jks truststore

    The upgrade from ISP4VE 8.1.23.0 to 8.1.23.x deletes the C:\IBM\SpectrumProtect\webserver\usr\servers\veProfile\resources\security\key.jks truststore file and the steps which are documented in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spfve/8.1.23?topic=cssdpv-...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Planned for future release

    ACL support for Spectrum Scale file systems

    Spectrum Protect does fully support Spectrum Scale filesystems. If special attributes of files in this file systems aremodified like setting or changing ACLs, on the next backup run thecomplete file will be backed up again, though only metadata wh...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    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 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    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...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    enable all deviceclasses in "del volhist t=dbb" command

    When removing dbbackups via deleting volumehistory there is no possibility of retaining certain older backups in other device classes. The "del volhist t=dbb" doesn't recognise non-server deviceclasses. This would be a welcome addition for enablin...
    9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Under review

    Support for Ontap 9.17.1 /9.18.1

    The support for Ontap 9.16.1 runs out in 31. Januar 2028. The support for Ontap 9.15.1 on 31. Juli 2027. So only 1,5 or 2 years left. Please support more current releases
    about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0

    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.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    TSM client & server support for CENTOS

    Please support CENTOS as a platform for TSM server and client. All other major backup tools support CENTOS as a backup client or server architecture. You cannot stay behind. No support means for us undoubtedly abandoning the TSM (SP) platform.
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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