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Allow pending glacier protocol requests automatic clean up on SP server for failed or aborted restores

Design of the code needs to clean up automatically on the SP server left over glacier restore requests coming from Spectrum Protect Plus when the client (here SPP) has failed or the user cancelled the active restore process.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Modify 'Protected and Unprotected VMs' report to allow display of only unprotected VM

The current report shows both protected and unprotected VMs in report and allow to hide Unprotected VM. However there is no report which can display only unprotected VM. Business Justification: We have thousands of VMs part of protection and their...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow SP for VE for Hyper-v REST API timeout to be adjustable

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment for Hyper-V 8.1.9 GUI times out after 15-20 minutes, and disconnects REST API session, making all manual backup running via Data Protection for Hyper-V GUI to fail and process status no longer visible. Plea...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Access to all functions in SPP through WAN using SSL

It is possible to connect to some of the functions in the SPP server GUI, but not all of them. E.g: accessing the Policy Overview page. The GUI tries to access the public IP address / host name from inside the firewall, and this causes the problem.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Display VM name to restore JOB Name

Hi, We find it extremely hard to follow & find my restore vm's since our environment have many restore due to massive data reuse and the restore jobs are not displaying the restored vm names and there is only numbers such as: OnDemandrestore_1...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Need to improve file restore option to assign limited restore permission

Need to improve file restore option to assign limited restore permission because in the current version we have to implement multiple settings.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

alert on vdisk usage threshold

On ESS, we need an mmhealth alert for full (and nearly full) vdisks/NSDS There is currently warnings (default 80% full) and errors (default 90% full) for both filesystem and pools. This is good. The problem occurs when a customer at a later time e...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

File Audit Logging x Object/S3

With Scale we have FAL for NFS and CIFS, for Object/S3 we have the capability to have the mapping for the SWIFT API user only and not with the specific user or application that is submitting the request (put, get, etc). Our client is asking thew c...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Improve documentation on Spectrum Protect Object Agent

See related case TS008878679. There is no documentation on the configuration details of the Object Agent. The object agent is needed to offload data from Spectrum Protect Plus to Spectrum Protect. There is no documetation on the object_agent_confi...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SpectrumProtectPlus Feature add

Government Audit requirement, customer is requesting. Is there a way on the back end to rename an SLA without impact existing backup data in SPP? 2. Can an editable “description” field be added to the SLA object in the SPP dashboard so we can indi...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration