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avoid external ssh access to spp container pods for ISP Plus kubernetes backup

In release 10.1.6 of ISP Plus ssh access to the spp agent container pods is needed from outside the k8s cluster (ISPP Server needs this access).There are security concerns at a customer site due to this requirement.SPP server to spp agent pod comm...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

SPP monitoring for Ticket

SPP failure alerts support for monitoring tools
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus SLA removal options

When removing SLA in Spectrum Protect Plus the following options should be presented:1. Delete now2. Preserve until retention expires3. Retention hold
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add possibility to change SQL agent communication IPs

The SPP SQL Agent needs to communicate with the ISP GUI to get the credentials for mounting the SMB log volume from the vSnap.Unfortunately it's not possible to change the IP or network which is used for this communication. This is a big issue in ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Need a way to move clients between vsnap servers to load balance use of vsnaps

Customer would like the ability to move clients from one vsnap to another to help balance the use of the vsnap servers in their environment.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

eMail encryption for Operations Center

As security requirements increase, it is our company policy to send encrypted emails with authentication. Can you please add SmartTLS with TLSv1.2 and authentication (port 587/tcp) as feature on Spectrum Protect Operations Center ?
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Missing WEB-client in ISP 8.1.2 and later

We updated one of out ISP-Servers (AIX) to Version 8.1.3 a few days ago. After having finished that I also updated one Windows Agent to BA-Version 8.1.2 (file Server). Everything is working fine except the fact, that the WEB-Client is no longer su...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Summary of how time is spent on a job in dsminstr.log - i.e. by percentage to easily determining the primary bottlenecks

Currently, all the information in the dsminstr.log is by thread, and it would be fantastic to know how to summarize this information on a job-level. This is very hard - if not impossible - to do in the current state, as all information is per thre...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Needs more information

Include SNMPD in appliance

Please add snmpd module to the appliance.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Better performance/parallelism on generate dedupstats

It will be usefull to be able to use "generate dedupstats" to generate daily usage information for nodes/nodegroups on a multitenant setup.Unfortunately, the performance of the current "generate dedupstats" makes it impossible for us to generate t...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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