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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Enable an Audit trail for VM and applications

Auditing – Enable a Audit trail for VM and applications. Audit trail is for jobs currently and doesn't provide info on object i.e. it says restore job started and completed but doesnt show the VMs recovered. From an auditing point of view customer...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Idle session timeout for Spectrum Protec Plus Web UI

It should be possible to automatically cancel inactive Web UI sessions according to your own settings. As it is now, inactive sessions are kept active forever. This is a security risk.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

add ability to create certificate signing request to SP+ interface

The SP+ admin UI allows us to provide a real (non self signed ) certificate but does not provide a way to create a certificate signing request which is necessary to obtain a real certificate. We need a supported way to create CSRs
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future 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.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable text based output from Rest API

Rest API query for license usage comes out as pdf, excel or html. These are not well suited to import to other systems for automation. I would like the output as text, like csv file.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Future consideration

Detailed VM Backup Utilization report

This RFE is for improving the reporting function. What I think SPP is in need of is a more detailed report of storage usage per VM or application. More specific a presentation of deduplication ratio and compression ratio, with sizes in bytes - bef...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 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.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Reusedelay-like option in Spectrum Protect Plus, similar to the option in Spectrum Protect

A reconciliation option between vSnap contents and SPP catalog, in the event that an SPP catalog restore is needed, so that at least some backup recoveries can be facilitated from those snaps missing meta data.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Save the last copy

We have seen scenarios where VMware Virtual Machines just disrepair out from vCenter because of VMX file has been corrupted, or has been deleted of mistake.And because of the server or service hasn't been that important or been used that offend. W...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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