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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Scheduled reports. Save to local path in SPP

Hi.Regarding how to schedule a report to NOT use smtp server due to DMZ and sectret networks. We are handling SPP in DMZ and secret networks where there is no smpt server allowed. How can we save scheduled reports to a local path?For us this is im...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP Report section is limited and restricted by predefined shape which cant cover customer needs.

We need to have option to remove lines from report to report just relevant data for customer. For example: Predefined VM Backup History report contain : SLA Policy, Protection Time, Status Backup, Storage Backup, Size, Backup Speed,VM: HOSTNAME,Hy...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Edit SLA Policy name

Enable the customer to edit the name of an SLA Policy.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Oracle log backup status

The status of the Oracle 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. If a failure of the Oracle DB is bad, we need to see a failure on the backup job on the da...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enhance zero touch agent injection by automatically making the changes to support SPP agent to the server

Customer has requested making the zero touch agent injection process simpler. For this specific case, the pre-requisites to inject an agent on a Linux server is a lengthy process. They would like to see if this can be done automatically when deplo...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

OSSM Proxy on the same server as SP OSSM Server

currently on VSNAP servers we have the ability to also run the vadp proxy on the same server. with OSSM this is not possible. we need to have separate proxies as using the SP OSSM server as a OSSM proxy doesnt work. having separate vm proxies requ...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Externalise Achive to tape backup

Hello, I dont know why you have created an archive to tape solution without any possibility to externalise the tapes. We really need this option fefore we are going to another solution. Regards, Nabil AMER
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Improving offload hardware requirement efficiency

Hi, Currently, when an SPP customer would like to have a copy on tapes, he has 2 alternatives:1. copy mode - to have additional storage space in the ISP server (as directory container) to allow incremental copies. that requires twice the capacity ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Backing up and Restoring VMs that have independant disks allocated to them

Short notes:TSM for VE will backup and restore and VM with zero dependent disks. The data will not be on the disks, but the VM will backup and restore with the disks in place. SPP simply fails the job if there are no dependent disks. TSM for VE wi...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add SNMP monitoring capabilities to CDM

The IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management appliance does provide SMTP to send alerts when an SLA or job fails.For integration in monitoring/event management tools, the ability to select SNMP trap sending is required.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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