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Storage Protect Family

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Proactive alerting

Proactive alerts setup to alert when CPU, memory, configuration catalog, recovery catalog and file catalog are reaching 75%+ to flag more resources will be required shortly.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add completed timestamp on failed administrative events

Add "completed" timestamp to administrative events if the administrative schedule fails.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

update TDPOSYNC to set objects as inactive

Hello, We have a security need to limit the potential access of rogue actors. Specifically, we need to ensure a single person cannot destroy both the production systems and their copies in backup. For most workloads we can use backdelete=no to pre...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

Node Replication & DR - Enable client backup to the Target TSM Server

Enable the BA/TDP clients to send backup data to the target server in case of a failure of the primary server (node replication enabled)
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect - password strength

Spectrum Protect has no capability to enforce strong passwords for "local" IDs. Only the length of the password can be specified. The new TLS certificates do give some better security. But I would like to see SP enforce strong passwords, eg 14 ran...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

3 sites Support

Hi, we are receiving requirements about 3 Site Support. It is very necessary for our Customer. This a mandatory requirement from regulator.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Consistency between Disk # and Drive letter when using TAG INCLUDE:N or EXCLUDE:N

spectrum protect TAGS to include or exclude disk from tdp4ve backup are not consitent over time
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

SET FILESPACEATRISKINTERVAL

Requesting a new command, and related alerting/monitoring and opcenter handling. SET FILESPACEATRISKINTERVAL node_name filespace,filespace,filespace [NAMEType=FSID|SERVER|UNICODE] TYPE=[DEFAULT|BYPASSED|CUSTOM] Interval=value
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Operation Center option to only send report if there is output

Operation Center "Configure Report" should have a checkbox to prevent sending a report if there is no output.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Future consideration

RHEL 8 server support

After Linux: Minimum Linux x86_64 server requirements https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.7/srv.install/r_srv_lnx_sysreq_inst_x-linux.htmlthere is RHEL support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 or later Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

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