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Enable wildcards on storage pools and node names on DEDUPSTATS commands

Enable usage of wildcards and/or nodegroups on storage pools and node names on the commands: GENERATE DEDUPSTATSDELETE DEDUPSTATSQUERY DEDUPSTATS
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Login with certificates during file indexing on Linux

Case number: TS000844605 Customer REQUIRES use of certificates when logging into the Linux environment, currently SPP does not support login with certificates during indexing of files.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SPP - Enable 'disable log capability' to SQL Ad Hoc Backup

In an SQL Always-On (clustered) DB restore, we need the ability to disable log backups using the SQL Ad-Hoc backup function.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 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

SP server to support IBM S3 cloud side retention policies, WORM features, object locking

When using Cloud Storage Pool in a Spectrum Protect Server , it should support all the features that can be set at the S3 level ( especially when the S3 cloud is IBM !! ) like Cloud side retention policies, WORM features, object locking.For retent...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

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

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

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

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