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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Support IBM S3 interfaces provided by IBM products on SPP+

The only supported S3 interface from IBM is "IBM CLOUD SORAGE". Technote 1087149 lists the "s3 compatible storage providers" and there is not ONE product listed there from IBM. Spectrum Protect, and Spectrum Scale come to mind, but I am SURE there...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow client migration from VSNAP to OSSM and back again

Currently to migrate a client from OSSM to Vsnap storage requires deleting ALL recovery points for that client. This is worse than migrating to a different backup vendor. I have NO backups for that client simply because I want to change my backend...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Since Repository server will not allow SPP+ Catalog backup , support "S3 Compatible on TSM server", Then backup Catalog to S3 on TSM.

I have an open PMR because I already have TSM with a tape based Disaster recovery solution because I have no networked second site to use as a DR capability. We are not Internet connected with these systems, which removes typical S3 DR solutions, ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Changing the mnt directory from root to dedicated file system

If we have a dedicated filesystem, it won't affect the space on root file system on Production servers. In our environment only, we faced the situation like the root file system is full due to this /mnt/spp/vsnapx/fspooly/ directory.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Have the ability to choose the backup node in oracle

Spectrum protect plus does not currently have the ability to choose the preferred node for backups in the case of oracles like in the exchange for example, and we have this in question for some customers, who do not want to change in oracle
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TSM repository server is not supported as catalog backup target for SPP+ (enable catalog backup to repository server)

Using the SPP+ gui you can select a TSM repository server as a target for catalog backup for SPP+. I have opened a call with IBM support (TS013178083) because at 10.1.14-217 release at least of SPP+ no matter how you configure the TSM S3 repositor...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add confirmation question for restart in Administrative Console - System Management

If accidently clicking on the "Restart IBM Spectrum Proctect Plus" it will happen instantly. I think it would be better with a confirmation here instead of using "hot" buttons.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add option to SPP to disable automatic connection to IBM update center.

There's a long timeout when using the Administrative Console before it is possible to click on "Updates and Hotfix Management" when there's no connection to IBM update center. After this long timeout when it is possible to click and go to the "Upd...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Dump of login information (auditlog) from the Spectrum Protect Plus application to monitor it in Rsyslog

Hi, we have enabled the Rsyslog, to monitor the accesses (login) to the Spectrum protect Plus, for the Linux server we already have it working, but for the login in the application there is no option, since this information is only in the GUI, and...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP: Multiple LDAP servers required

We are using SPP 10.1.13 for backup of VM machines of customers with some project manager requiring access and some customers (vm owners) to be able to start single file restore. Our customers requires to have more than one LDAP server authenticat...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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