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Storage Protect Family

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Add SP Server logging to SYSLOG for UNIX/AIX

Currently, logging to SYSLOG is only available on Linux. To properly integrate SP into SIEM/QRadar, it is essential to have logging to SYSLOG for UNIX/AIX, too.
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

change tape read/write throughput rates

Testing of Tapeoperations (move data) and got a throughput of only 120 MB/s to 140 MB/s with LTO7 tapedrives - in a Situation where nothing else happened
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

can not use Spectrum protect over san in ERP Database

We was working with AIX os and use Spectrum protect to backup the ERP Database on it using Oversan We moved the production server to SUSE enterprise 15 , but now the problem as in the case that over san is not supported with suse 15, and it is urg...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Future consideration

TDP SQL GUI more efficient for search restore point in allwaysOn cluster

Configuration: AlwaysOn DB configured on TDP for database SQL with 11 instances (Active/Inactive) with more than 70 SQL databases with MMC. Problem: When selectively restoring inactive data for a particular database, it takes a long time, up to 45...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 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...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Show various command line options and/or help options for dsmserv using -h or --help flag

The proposal is provide -h or --help option for storage protect server command line. Storage Protect Server can be started with various options. Currently the user has to go through SP documentation to know these options, as the command line does ...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Enable a "read only" system administrator for monitoring purposes

With the introduction of multi factor authentication in Spectrum Protect, administrative access to the software is significantly increased. However, an administrator without MFA must be used for automated monitoring activities. And for the executi...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Need Support for Open Enterprise Server (OES) OS which is LINUX Distribution

My customer just upgraded his supported OES to a newer version and are being told by IBM that it's no longer support on Spectrum Protect. This OS has been supported in the past (see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/linux-x8664-requirements-ibm-st...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Integrate Spectrum Protect authentication with existing accounts in LDAP servers not AD (like Tivoli Directory Server)

Today, with Spectrum Protect, if we are using LDAP servers like Tivoli Directory Server, SP will create 2 OU's: Administrators and Nodes and also create CN's of each Administrator ID under it. It will only authenticate users that are listed in the...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

User/owner name should be again a part of the backup information (ISP Server Database table backups/archives column “owner”)

After upgrading the ISP Client from 7.1.x to Version 8.1.8, the configuration on the DB2 Server is not compatible anymore.The instance owner as user is not presented on the Spectrum protect server backup/archive table(s) anymore and we would need ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

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