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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.
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 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

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

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

Spectrum Protect - password strength

Spectrum Protect has no capability to enforce strong passwords for "local" IDs. Only the length of the password can be specified. The new TLS certificates do give some better security. But I would like to see SP enforce strong passwords, eg 14 ran...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under 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

.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

Domnode support for new Webclient GUI

The old webclient supported option domnode to be able to restore/activate Domino databases without logging into the target machine (help deskmodel). The domnode functionality is missing in the new security enabled Webclient (WEBGUI).
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Need to add the functionality for VM multi-writer enabled disks backup. (Object. CBT-enabled VM having multi-writer disk(s))

Hello Team, We configured few VM backup In IBM Spectrum Protect Plus and those are getting failed due to multi-writer enabled on their disks. too resolve this issue, we raised a case (case # TS008530431). We get an update that in case is there is ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

make the TS4500 network 172.31.1.x changeable for all octets

Let make changeable the customer the hole IP address of the TSSC network 172.31.1.x/24 inte of only the last octet.
over 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration