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Address weak security keystore in Spectrum Protect Plus

Security enhancement, could possibly be considered a flaw in current security postures of the Product. When deploying a VADP proxy, and the existing server to have the proxy installed on is in "FIPS" mode the following message is produced, prevent...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Inherited VM options on a per backup policy level

Backup policies defined on a per tag basis are allowed to inherit the parent options associated with the tag (i.e. defining proxy server, snapshot retries, application/filesystem consistency, etc.). As these options get defined for a single tag, t...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Individual Creation of SLA/User/Identity (tenant based account)

Dear IBM,Our customer Requires Ability to create his own SLA policies and assign VM's/DB's/Filesystems in it. Ability to create his own users and assign him role of limited capabilityAbility to create his own identities (for inventory of VM's most...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Customers running SI ( free ) should be notified when probe or performance collections fail

When a probe or performance collection fails for a customer running SI free we should send an email or some alert notification to the user. Today they only alerting is in SI Pro and if the customer is running SI free it's not an option.
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Support Spectrum Virtualize Recovery host mappings via CLI/API

CSM supports host mapping management for SGC backup recovery via the GUI to simplify actions necessary to validate an SGC backup, for example as part of a Cyber Vault solution. A general recommendation for Cyber Vault solutions is to automate as m...
about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Add alert condition with " Normal status"

I would like to create an alert that trigger for example when the host connection is <=1, but this alert should not trigger when customer is performing a code upgrade or rebooting a node , this is the reason I need a condition that that say Nod...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Policy Overview

Protection by policy shows number of VMs protected, but doesn't allow further investigation. Should be able to click on policy and see associated VMs.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable setup of cataloging of file metadata at an SLA level as well as a VM level

Enable the catalog metdata option at an SLA level as well as VM level. This is so its easier to enable in larger environments when a customer wants to enable across the entire estate. Also be good if we provided a standard GPO to enable the rollou...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

move or migrate cloud container

There's no way or support to move or migrate the content of a cloud container.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Need function in Spectrum Protect Plus to delete all backups of SQL Server database

Customer requires functionality in Spectrum Protect Plus to delete all backups of a SQL Server database. This is related to GDPR.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Future consideration

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