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SP Plus interface enhancement: job monitor

In the Job monitor tab, add possiblity to filter entries to easily differentiate administrative tasks and backup tasks . Basically the Type column is already there but cannot be even used to sort the entries.Furthermore another column providing th...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Have CSM alert when ADMIN password expires

Today when ADMIN password expires on the DS8K (typically after the default of 90 days), CSM will stop working and you cannot directly see what is the issue. It is reported in CSM as connection error. I suggest we get a notification - maybe a few d...
about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Not under consideration

Centralized Configuration Management for SPP Server

Provide option of centralized configuration management for SPP when using multiple SPP Servers.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus: Replication Job ends in error when replicating only MSSQL transaction logs

Based on our SLA with the customer we need to synchronize SQL log backups to the secondary vSnap server ( with the replication job) every two hours. The replication job after the backup job is always successful, because volumes for data+log backup...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

OC nodegroup handling

When dealing with node replication there is sometimes a need to group certain nodes in nodegroups i.e. for more frequent replication than for other nodes. I'd like to see a panel where one can create and display nodes grouped by nodegroup and also...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Add all cloudpak's as Operator installs

in the Fusion GUI, we have operator install of backup, datacatalog and Global Data Platform.Why not use this place to add all Cloudpak's as well, for easy deployment.First in line would be watsonx.data, watsonx.ai and wastonx.gov.
8 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Server support for Red Hat 8

Spectrum Protect server needs to run on latest Red Hat Enterpise Linux editions 8 and 8.1.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

more granular scheduling in Spectrum Protect OC Reports

The OC accepts only scheduled reports for daily or weekly. No Day of week or month nor time could be selected separately for each configured report.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

API enhancement for File System Size and Utilization

In the current version (5.1.8) the api does not have a usable endpoint for the filesystem to show Current File System Size (Data/System) File system utilisation (size / %used)
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect OneDrive Support

IBM Spectrum Protect need to be able to protect data on Microsoft OneDrive. Our competition can do this today and customers have started asking if we can do this or not.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration