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Enable support for Tags and Folders in Resource Groups

Enable support for Tags and Folders in Resource Groups
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Proactive alerting

Proactive alerts setup to alert when CPU, memory, configuration catalog, recovery catalog and file catalog are reaching 75%+ to flag more resources will be required shortly.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

User unable to query fileset if permissions are root as owner and user as group

It is not unusual for user directories permissions to be set where root is the owner and the user is the group for operational reasons. However this leads to the situation where user have a degraded level of service as they cannot query their file...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

All server-side command to control which SP server a client connects to as primary

Allow Spectrum Protect administrator to issue a command that will alert a node it should connect to a different SP server as a primary.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

.tsv file extension should not take precedence for filetype .tsv.gz

We have encountered an issue with applications agents and scanning files of the type ".*.gz", for example "some_file.nii.gz" or "other_file.tsv.gz". The filetype registered after scanning a directory containing these types of files is often wrong....
about 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

3 sites Support

Hi, we are receiving requirements about 3 Site Support. It is very necessary for our Customer. This a mandatory requirement from regulator.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Backing up data to Replication Spectrum protect server when Production TSM server id down for many days.

When the production Spectrum Protect server is down or having Disaster scenario, SP admins should go through tiresome steps to backup the data to replication SP Server. For each client, we will need to below steps for customers having 4000+ client...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SPP report backup data stored and transferred for each VM machine in XLS and SCV output format for selected time frame.

Our customer is charged for transferred and stored backup data. We are missing option to schedule report with option to select time frame. At best to have output in XLS and mainly SCV format which can be imported to SACR (Smart Automated Capacity ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Encryption of Server2Server Volumes

We'd like to get a possibility to use encryption on any device class protected by the current IBM Spectrum Protect Instance. Especially using server2server virtual volumes on another IBM Spectrum Protect Server, needs the data stored on the target...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Provide SPP report download in .csv format

Customer would like to be able to download reports from SPP in .csv format.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration