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Storage Protect Family

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Update notification for gui-clients when new version is available

We have a lot of not technically savvy customers (their pcs are not managed by the backup-admins) which are not checking for client updates on their own.I think it would be useful to have a popup notification when an client update is available (as...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Proxy Support for Spectrum Protect Operation Center

Possiblilty to configure Spectrum Protect Operation Center (hub instance) to use a http/https proxy server for downloading client packages used for the client autodeployment feature.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 5 Not under consideration

Option to configure rsize parameter in Storage Copy Data Management for Spectrum Virtualize/Flashsystem

Currently Storage Copy Data Management creates FlashCopy target volumes on Spectrum Virtualize/Flashsystem devices launching the following command: mkvdisk -mdiskgrp <pool_name> -iogrp <io_grp_name> -size <size> -rsize 0% -autoex...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Plus ability to offload historical Data

We need the ability to offload historical data to ICOS.The customer had an environment backing up for approximately 12 months before ICOS was implemented and we started offloading.The customer wanted all its historical data offloaded to ICOS howev...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 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...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

Easy change certificate on S3 storage agent

Today the S3 Agent certifikate is catched from the default certifikation on sp server at the the installation of s3 agent. It's not possible to add a new certifikate to the s3 agent certificate store. To change the certificate you must deinstall t...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

cert_distribute.sh script should allow customers to input a list of client nodes

In the current implementations, the cert_distribute.sh shell script at levels 8.1.21 and 8.1.22 queries the Storage Protect server for all its Storage Protect client nodes, does some filtering to select only supported platforms, and then will asso...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

customize commandapproval commands

SP 'set commandapproval' doesn't allow to customize the predefined list of commands. Security needs are different from customer to customer.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

Support export node when using directory container storage pools

Simpler way to move data from one SP server to another versus node replication, also support export node ti filedev class.The command export node today runs but in actlog all files present that it is not allowed, the command should have resturned ...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

In SPP need the ability to backup local drives on clustered VMs that have non-unique UUIDs

The customer has a need to use SPP to backup Windows VMs that are clustered. Currently when they look at the drives under each cluster the C:\ drive only appears on one of the servers in the cluster. The reason for this is that each C:\ drive has ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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