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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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SQL log backup status

The status of the SQL log backup is found only in the job log. We would like the log backups to be more visible and easy to check for success or failure. The Dashboard or on the section named Application - SQL - Backup would be helpful.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

GUI Audit Log Improvements

Streamline GUI Audit logging. It's a little noisy which makes it a challenge to seek out legitimate events. There are also basic critical events/actions that should be included which appear to be missing.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

ISPP: Support btrfs - Single file restore & File indexing

We see a huge lack of compatibility in ISPP for ALL Suse customers worldwide.currently btfrs is not supported, which will cause two main issues:- Fileindexing is not supported, so direct single file restore is not possible- If you do an "instant a...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

vSNAP space reclamation

Currently, when a pool's capacity decreases ie by the expiration of backups, the vSNAP server doesn't seem to issue any kind of zero-ing or SCSI Unmap command to let the underlying infrastructure reclaim the space.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Option to update server certificate via command line

Official CA server certificates have to be exchanged every year. There should be a method, other than the GUI, to replace these certificates automatically (via ansible, puppet, etc.). Therefore a command line option (scp) is needed!
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Dynamic Workload Re-Balancing between vSnaps in a single site

More dynamic workload distribution would be a great feature to add into SPP. For example vSnap 1 is 75% full and newly added vSnap 2 is 5% full therefore migrate some of the existing snapshots (base and incremental) to vSnap 2 for dynamic workload...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

SPP report creation

Spectrum Protect Plus has very interesting reports, but we need some individual views in virtual machine backup. We need to know, for example, the time and end of the backup of a respective VM individually and not just the time that the total SLA ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Improve SPP Scheduler

Scheduler is not enough flexible. Need an enhanced-like tsm schdeduler. Case :a VM can be backuped by differents Sla's, with theirs own retention and start time. we need :- to add some exclusions (exclude a soecific hour, day, week, month , exclud...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

VM's Removing from SLA

We have identified and issue where VM's are automatically removing from SLA due to xyz reason and got to know this is as per design. So we should have some info report where we can see how many VM's removed automatically from SLA after last backup...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

SPP within the Federal Market

Within the Federal Market, we are unable to sell Spectrum Protect Plus as it uses the CentOS as its base OS. CentOS is not able go through the DOD Security Technical Implementation Guide process (STIG) to identify vulnerabilities for the OS or the...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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