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Include SNMPD in appliance

Please add snmpd module to the appliance.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

avoid external ssh access to spp container pods for ISP Plus kubernetes backup

In release 10.1.6 of ISP Plus ssh access to the spp agent container pods is needed from outside the k8s cluster (ISPP Server needs this access).There are security concerns at a customer site due to this requirement.SPP server to spp agent pod comm...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

add support for other KMIP server type

Today, only SKLM is supported to encrypt tapes. To simplify infrastructure, we would concentrate our KMIP requests to only one type of server. So our request is to have support for other servers.
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 4 Planned for future release

Support for the Domino client beyond V7.1 EOS (12/31/2021)

The Domino client is still on version 7.1 and will get out of support on 12/31/2021. Even if there is no further development planned, there should be support available for customers using Domino.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

Multifactor Authentication (MFA) support for RSA SecurID

Many large, heavily regulated enterprises require multifactor authentication (MFA) on mission critical technology assets. One of the most popular on-prem MFA solutions is RSA SercurID. RSA is supported on the IBM enterprise DS8k storage product, i...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

SPP excluding disks Function for HyperV (same function as available for VMware)

The function "Excluding single virtual disks from SLA policy for a VMware job" (description see Redbook REDP-5532-01, page 175) is current only available for VMWare but missing in HyperV.Inventx needs this function in HyperV.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

SPP agent for file backups

Please develop an agent to backup files directly from the VM (over WinRM or SSH/SCP) instead of through disk snapshots.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

SI Should Include FC Ports Current Speed as a Column

SI should include the Current Speed for FC Ports in the table. The table currently only lists the maximum possible speed of a port. The CurrentSpeed of the port is available from lsioport -metrics
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Restart failed backup

SPP should provide the option to restart backups and try again to protect failed VMs of the previous run.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Disable ransomware alert for specific nodes

Ransomware detection is always on, and cannot be disabled. Every login has a pink banner because 5 nodes are never near their long-term average for size and dedupe ratio.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Planned for future release

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