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Create Reports for Data which is send to Object Storage for single Clients / Servers

Hello actually we need to create Reports for Data which is sent from SPP to TSM Object Storage within additional copies and archives. I can not find a report type in SPP which supports the report for data amounts for additional copies / archives. ...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

Possibility for monthly and annual Archiving to TSM Tape

When configuring additional copies with offload on TSM, you can only use container pools for storage, but container pools cannot be migrated to tape. Since we only use all-flash SAN storage, this is a very costly solution. For our customer, we nee...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus support MariaDB

Important pubic sector in Spain (Andalucia sub-region) has decided to use "Maria DB" as new Data Base (replacing Oracle).Some customers in that public sector loves SPP for future Containers, VMs and Aplication Data Protection but they really need ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future 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

Support for Active Directory Item restore

Today does IBM Storage Protect Backup-Archive Client only support to protect Microsoft Active Directory and do a total Disaster Recovery of Microsoft Active Directory. If we want to restore only one item in the Active Directory to get back from a ...

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

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

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

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