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Storage Protect Family

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Log server tcp port as well together with client ip/port in access log.

Today the server logs entries similar to the following: 03/03/22 09:02:58 ANR0406I Session 83331 started for node HOST.EXAMPLE.COM (Linux x86-64) (SSL host.example.com[dead:beef::1]:45186). (SESSION: 83331) However, there is no logging of which se...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Make it possible to bypass tsm admin config on TSM4VE Web Interface

It should be possible to "bypass" the TSM Server credentials configuation in the TSM4VE Web interface.Once the configuration has been "bypassed", TSM4VE should never ask for it again.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Customer needs more detail on client activity to be able to manage backups effectively

A customer needs more information to be able to effectively manage client backups. If a client experiences an exception, it is important to be able to look at its historical success and failure and workload. Specifically, in the details section fo...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Add information to Operations Center to make client management better.

A customer needs more information in the operations center to be able to effectively manage client backups, particularly exceptions in the data protection services. For example, the current columns that can be selected include the at-risk status a...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Update Cloudstoragepool to make it immutable.

Hello Currently S3 immutable and immutable COS is supported but its only with define stgpool but its not supported do update current stgpool to make it immutable. Since S3 allow changes now, can we please have an update stgpool with enabledatalock?
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Change the IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Microsoft SQL Server autoselect to select backups prior to the backup endtime, instead of the backups prior to the backup starttime

The LSN (Log Sequence Number) checkpoint is created when an SQL backup concludes. This can lead to the autoselect function in IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Microsoft SQL Server, selecting a log backup between the Difffuls or Full backups start...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

Implement console mode installation to support clean server installations

Remove the need for using a "GUI" server for Spectrum Protect Server. When running the SP on a true server instance, then only allowing GUI install is limiting our environment and also makes installation more complicated due to VM/OS itself but a...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Future consideration

VMDK size limit for spectrum protect for ve backups (vmware)

Increase vmdk size limit which is currently 8TB
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect - stgrule subrule, allow groups to be specified and not just clients

stgrule subrule - allow groups and/or wildcards to be used for subrules. For example, at the moment I have 500 clients, some I want to tierbystate and some tierbyage. To keep my setup simple, I have one staging pool which tiers to one cloud pool. ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

log on to SPP with single sign on (Use Windows session authentication)

please activate log on to SPP with single sign on(Use Windows session authentication) also a log on procedure with smart card would be convenient.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration