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Storage Protect Family

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Support for Extended ACL Propagation on Spectrum Protect BA Client Restore to Isilon NAS via Windows Proxy.

The customer opened a tickets to report that when he would restore files locally on a Windows host / proxy, it would restore the extended ACL proxy using the BA Client but when he does the same, using the same Windows Proxy but to restore the data...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) needs to be installable in Azure

Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) server and vSnap needs to be installable in Azure.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Need the ability to seed initial data from source vSnap to target replication vSnap

A customer has requested the ability to physically send a copy of data on external media from the source vSnap to the site that has the target replication vSnap for ingest rather than send the data over their network. They would like to do this to...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - bring greater visibility on data and metadata if both do not match

TS003754429It was recommended for a RFE to be opened to give greater visibility into what is on the vSNAPs matches what is in the SPP database/catalog.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

fix column widths in dsmadmc interactive screen output

When using dsmadmc for SP management, the screen output quality looks often still like from previous century. Especcially number columns are often too narrow even when there is plenty of console width still available. This leads to wrapped numbers...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Node Replication Status

When a node fails to replicate, it is nearly impossible to determine why it failed. You have to open a PMR and gather logs and usually have to bring in level II support. This is a big waste of both my and IBM supports' time.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

SPP SSL Certificate upload needs significant improvement

The process to upload an SSL certificate for Spectrum Protect Plus is unclear and misleading. The "manage your certificates" upload screen in the admin console states that the supported certificate format are cer and crt. These are also listed as ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Support for nested LDAP groups and a test LDAP function

Enable LDAP support for nested LDAP groups and enable a test function for LDAP setup
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable a randomised restore test i.e. Automated Recovery Tester

Restore functionality – Enable a randomised restore test i.e. Automated Recovery Tester
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for SQL on Linux

SQL DBA's do a research for using MS SQL on Linux for Big Databases
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration