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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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SPP agent for file backups

Please develop an agent to backup files directly from the VM (over WinRM or SSH/SCP) instead of through disk snapshots.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Activities history (audits).

Hallo As we see, practically, there is no user (admin) activity logs in the SPP. It is not possible for example, to track, who and when apply or remove SLA from VM or application. It would be nice to have activities list for different operations, ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add root cause Db2 messages to job log in SPP

When a DB2 restore job in SPP fails, the DB2 message including the root cause of this failure is not shown in the job log. And therefore not on the ISPP gui itself. For finding the cause why the job failed, you need to logon to the ISPP server, di...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Restart failed backup

SPP should provide the option to restart backups and try again to protect failed VMs of the previous run.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Plus File level Restores

Spectrum Protect Plus Restoration and cataloging not very user friendly.It would be nice if you can select and tick the folders and files you want restored. similar to Spectrum Protect (TSM) & Backup Exec and other backup software.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP physical server Filesystem backup support problem

Need a lot of improvement backing File System backups
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SCDM - Re-use SSH sessions for IBM SVC Storage

Spectrum Copy Data Management creates new SSH sessions when running SVC CLI commands. Each CLI commands requires opening an SSH session and once the CLI command completes, closing the SSH session. Instead of opening a new SSH session for every CLI...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

SPP - Option for Non-memory Snapshot

By default SPP always takes a memory snapshot.Although SPP has the option to disable VSS (Quiesced Snapshot), it doesn not have the option to disable a memory snapshot.We NEED the option to disable memory snapshot for some VMs which cannot be snap...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Allow file-indexing without sudo(root) on Linux VM's or local admin id on Windows VM's

System: Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.8Request: Need new feature on SPP to allow file-indexing on on Windows VM's with out a local admin account on the VM and on Linux VM's without granting sudo(root) all access on the VM.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SLA schedules are removed to early from ISPP

When the last VM or Database is removed from a SLA policy ISPP will also remove the complete schedule for this SLA.Unfortunately this also includes all post processes like replication or archiving, which means the backup data will not be copied to...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

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