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different failoverhladdresses for nodes

there is only the option to set failoverhladdress globally. but if there are tsmnodes coming through many different interfaces, there is no way to set this for each interface or at least node-specific
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Logging of details for files deleted by dsmc delete on Spectrum Protect client

If on a client node an administrator deletes files using the dsmc delete arch or dsmc delete back there is no detailed logging of the deleted files neither on the ISP server nor on the ISP client. You only have the number of deleted files in the a...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Future consideration

GUI Audit Log Improvements

Streamline GUI Audit logging. It's a little noisy which makes it a challenge to seek out legitimate events. There are also basic critical events/actions that should be included which appear to be missing.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SQL log backup status

The status of the SQL log backup is found only in the job log. We would like the log backups to be more visible and easy to check for success or failure. The Dashboard or on the section named Application - SQL - Backup would be helpful.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

parallel SAP HANA Log Backup of HDBBackint to two destinations

customer wants to change the way HDBackint works with two destinations.'REDOLOG_COPIES 2' is slower than'REDOLOG_COPIES 1', because of the way how the logs are being processedby hdbbackint:.hdbbackint uses one thread for reading a data buffer from...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

additional status "MAINTENANCE" for drives and paths

Drives and paths only the both status' ONLINE and OFFLINE. An additional one "MAINTENANCE" or "OFFLINE asap" would be extremely useful for the preparation of maintenance (especially unplanned due to an error) to get a library free of accesses.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

need tape disaster recovery ability for Spectrum Protect Plus

Enable Spectrum Protect to be a disaster recovery target for Spectrum Protect Plus.This would provide tape based disaster recovery of Spectrum Protect Plus.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

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 ...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Add VMware Tape support to ISP Server

Today ISP is supported as an ESX Guest but with a carve out for tape.https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21239546#VMware%20ESX%20Guest Historically this was due to the ESX 5.x limitation that explicitly did not support tape. VMware h...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

ISPP: Support btrfs - Single file restore & File indexing

We see a huge lack of compatibility in ISPP for ALL Suse customers worldwide.currently btfrs is not supported, which will cause two main issues:- Fileindexing is not supported, so direct single file restore is not possible- If you do an "instant a...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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