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Storage Protect Family

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Tiering rules need more flexibility for Filesystem and/or type of data (Backup/Archive)

I would like to see the tiering rules to be able to be a bit more flexible. I have a node that has Backup and Archive data.Backup data is more often needed quickly so a backup location in ContainerPools is valid.The Archive data is kept 10 years a...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

DSMCAD should write a PID File

DSMCAD is missing an option to write a PID file. When the daemon is started it forks into background and the started process vanishes. You can only grep the process list to get the PID of the running process. Tools like systemd need this informati...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Add option in Spectrum Protect OC to send reports in PDF format

One of my customers requested to have the option to send Spectrum Protect reports in PDF format via email. This is the same functionality that they have today, since they are using Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager and IBM Tivoli Common...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Future consideration

Additional SPP Support for Oracle XE Version

Backup by SPP not possible for Oracle XE: Oracle Database 18c Express Edition Release 18.0.0.0.0
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Add additional commands to IBM Spectrum Protect's command approval infustructure

IBM Spectrum Protect currently has the ability to require approval from two administrators for certain commands. However, commands like REGISTER ADMIN, UPDATE ADMIN, and REMOVE ADMIN are not included in this framework. From a security point of vie...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Ability to send custom reports via OC as csv attachments.

Having the ability to generate custom reports as csv attachments provide extra flexibility for post-processing.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Provide a CLI (OS) command spp_status on the SPP Server to have a quick view if all required processes are up and running

Similar to the CLI (OS) command vsnap_status on the vSnap server provide a CLI (OS) command spp_status on the SPP Server to have a quick view if all required processes are up and running.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

vSnap implement HA feature - automated failover

Implement an automated failover for vSnap component:When having multiple vSnaps in one Site and one vSnap fails, the other vSnaps won't automatically stand in and pick up the backup jobs. This causes a service outage which is not acceptable. Of co...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add support for NFS v4 on vSnap Servers to close Vulnerabilities issues caused by NFS v3

Customer is having SPP 10.1.7 and Security team runs multiple Vulnerability Scan multiple times a year and they have identified vulnerability on vSnap servers related to NFS version. Current NFS version of the vSnap file system is V3. Can we inclu...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add Azure native VM snapshots support to SPP

As of March 2021 SPP on Azure is capable to backup some DBs on Azure, but not VMson Azure.Add support for VMs will give SPP on Azure similar functionality comparing to SPP on premise
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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