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Storage Protect Family

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Disable scan of files before archiving when using filelist

We have been archiving with file lists for over 20 years, so we know that the client archived differently and, above all, faster in earlier versions (5-7). If you specified a file list in these old versions, archiving started within a few seconds,...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

SPP - Option for a Policy with Zero Retention / No Backup

We have several VMs in our environment that we do NOT want to backup. We tag these VMs with #No-Backup. However, there is currently no way in SPP to omit these VMs from the stats or associate them with a ‘No-Backup' Policy with a zero-day retentio...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Possibility to configure all log retentions or group them like Job Logs , Access Log and System Logs in SPP

Possibility to configure all log retentions or group them like Job Logs , Access Log and System Logs in SPP.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Ability to export support logs out of OperationsCenter GUI

In case of problems with the ISP environment it is needed to open a problem ticket and provide various log files from the ISP server. If the Operations Center is used it should be able to extract the logfiles out of the Operations Center. (e.g. ac...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Replication Workload

The workload value for the node replication in spectrum protect is based on an estimated value. The complete history of this value is visible when the summary table is filtered for activity='REPL_WORKLOAD'. The last value of repl_workload is also ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Print QR code when setting up MFA in dsmadmc

The new MFA/TOTP support for admin accounts is great, but it's cumbersome to set up when using dsmadmc due to the need to manually enter the shared secret in the MFA smartphone app. The solution is to print a QR code, and that works fine even in a...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

CentOs as a supported OS for TDP for VE datamover

Having RHEL 7 as supported Environment, and having CentOS 7 as supported in Spectrum Protect, it is highly appreciated to enhance support for running TDPVMware datamover and mountproxy in CentOS as well.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

SnapDiff API v2

As written in the NetApp KB, ISP is not able to use the SnapDiff API *v2*. https://kb.netapp.com/Advice_and_Troubleshooting/Data_Protection_and_Security/SnapDiff/When_performing_a_SnapDiff_incremental_backup_of_a_FlexGroup_volume%2C_Spectrum_Prote...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Support for MS Sharepoint

Support for the protect of Microsoft Sharepoint environments on-premis. File-level recovery.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Need Support for Open Enterprise Server (OES) OS which is LINUX Distribution

My customer just upgraded his supported OES to a newer version and are being told by IBM that it's no longer support on Spectrum Protect. This OS has been supported in the past (see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/linux-x8664-requirements-ibm-st...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

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