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Storage Protect Family

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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

Activities history (audits).

Hallo As we see, practically, there is no user (admin) activity logs in the SPP. It is not possible for example, to track, who and when apply or remove SLA from VM or application. It would be nice to have activities list for different operations, ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 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.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Update Cloudstoragepool to make it immutable.

Hello Currently S3 immutable and immutable COS is supported but its only with define stgpool but its not supported do update current stgpool to make it immutable. Since S3 allow changes now, can we please have an update stgpool with enabledatalock?
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Change the IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Microsoft SQL Server autoselect to select backups prior to the backup endtime, instead of the backups prior to the backup starttime

The LSN (Log Sequence Number) checkpoint is created when an SQL backup concludes. This can lead to the autoselect function in IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Microsoft SQL Server, selecting a log backup between the Difffuls or Full backups start...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

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

Access to AWS S3 buckets with object lock enabled via a VPC Endpoint

For security reasons we must access AWS S3 buckets via a VPC Endpoint. We also require that the S3 bucket has object lock enabled. We have set this up and tested it and it does not currently work. We are able to read/write to the S3 bucket via a V...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Support for the Domino client beyond V7.1 EOS (12/31/2021)

The Domino client is still on version 7.1 and will get out of support on 12/31/2021. Even if there is no further development planned, there should be support available for customers using Domino.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

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...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

vsphere CSI support in Spectrum Protect Plus

We're asking for SPP to support vsphere CSI driver in container environment
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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