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Linux File Indexing without Root

We have not been able to expand use of SPP in our environment because Operating System Admins are unwilling to grant us accounts with root-level privileges. Can we get a list of the commands that SPP uses that require root-level permissions? The t...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Option to turn off sending report attachments as a zip file

Currently when you create a report in SI and chose to have it emailed, attachments are always sent as a zip file. Clients that block file attachment extensions at the domain level are unable to receive these reports.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

SI no longer shows data collection logs

Recent versions of SI have removed the ability to view data collection logs.
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

When adding SMTP information provide a Test button which will send a test email

When adding SMTP information provide a Test button which will send a test email.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add Storage Class Attribute to Data Pushed to S3

When pushing data to S3 via the Cloudgateway service it would be helpful to be able to specify the storage class. If you don't specify the storage class the data will be stored in S3 Standard. You can create a Lifecycle policy to push the data to ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Creation of the O365 account automatically from SPP

When configuring backup of O365 the account and all required permissions shall be automatically applied from SPP
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

extend the Operations Center REST API by reporting functionality

extend the Operations Center REST API by functions to query reporting values, as they are provides by the "General Operations" report
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect for VE - Hyper-V, Change default restore location in MMC

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment - Hyper-V v8.1.8 on Hyper-V 2016: Is it possible to change the default restore location inside the MMC GUI when doing a Virtual Maschine Restore? If yes, how? Right now the default location (C:\ProgramData\...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

AFM-COS configuration option for proxy servers

At the moment you cannot configure AFM-COS to use an explizit http(s) proxy server to connect to an external S3 storage.Please also add proxy support to AFM-COS as it is already available for the TCT or call home features.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

When we increase a disk of a VMClient a Full VE backup is the result.

When we change a VMClient disk for example from 5TB to 10GB TSM is making a full VE backup.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

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