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Storage Protect Family

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    Include SNMPD in appliance

    Please add snmpd module to the appliance.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

    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.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    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...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    SQL Recovery Model change is not properly handled

    ISPP doesn't handle changes of the SQL recovery model from "full" to "simple" as it would be suitable for a enterprise product.When a DB with Log Backup enabled is changed to simple recovery model, there will be warnings that the log backup is fai...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Restart failed backup

    SPP should provide the option to restart backups and try again to protect failed VMs of the previous run.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Disable ransomware alert for specific nodes

    Ransomware detection is always on, and cannot be disabled. Every login has a pink banner because 5 nodes are never near their long-term average for size and dedupe ratio.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Planned for future release

    This applies to Spectrum CDM: Actions on multiple selected object

    If we have to hold/release several jobs we have to do it on each single job. Selecting all the jobs the only available action is "Delete", which is the most dangerous option. I think it can be very helpful for the day by day activity to enable al...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

    SPP agent for file backups

    Please develop an agent to backup files directly from the VM (over WinRM or SSH/SCP) instead of through disk snapshots.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

    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.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

    SPP excluding disks Function for HyperV (same function as available for VMware)

    The function "Excluding single virtual disks from SLA policy for a VMware job" (description see Redbook REDP-5532-01, page 175) is current only available for VMWare but missing in HyperV.Inventx needs this function in HyperV.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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