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Storage Protect Family

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Azure HCI support for SPP

Hallo Please consider support for Azure HCI.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Change of srvmon directory to different path instead of instance path

Our instance home directory which is 20 GB in size is getting full as the hidden collection folder in srvmon directory is using up to 15 GB of the space in instance directory before it can get purged.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Encrypt CREDentialsfile

Version 8.1.23 introduces a new feature that may compromise security. Store credential in plain text is not really secure. dsmadmc -credentialsfile=secretpwdfile - Starting and stopping the administrative client - IBM Documentation
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Change mail-function for OC and reports, email support for user/password

Open relay mailserver is not a common way anymore inside organisations to handle mail. I need support (new feature / way to handle mail) for operation center for reports which supports user/password and connections to non open relay mailservers al...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Increase history from 2 weeks to a longer (per choice) period of time.

2 weeks are to short for history for clients and servers where customers often asks for changes that happened maybe 1-2 months ago. Espicially when it comes to "what happened / why did my storage grow last month" but also in regards of SP server s...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Ubuntu on s390x support for Spectrum Project Client

Originally requested in 2019 and was marked for future consideration, IBM support Ubuntu on s390x Linux on Z however does not provide a backup client for Spectrum on an IBM platform s390x Linux on Z.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

Qumulo SMB backup API integration

Integration with Qumulo API to eliminate the long/timely treewalk to see which files/folders have changed.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Enable to bulk select the Hard disk1 or other hardidisk of all the VMS to protect.

There is no way using the GUI to bulk-select all 'Hard disk 1' of all the VMs to protect. I want to protect only harddisk 1 (OS disk) Via SPP. But need to do it 1 by 1. There should be filter out disks for complete landscape.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Rebalancing datamovers for a TAG-based schedule should exclude EXCLUDED VMs

When running a command to rebalance assigned datamovers for a TAG-based schedule I was surprised that the VMs with TAG 'Ecxluded' of category 'Backup Management (IBM Spectrum Protect)' was included and had a datamover-tag assigned. The rebalancing...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Make GUI less mouse-scrolling-mayham

When working in GUI (I long for a CLi) it is divided into different parts using scrollable text-boxes. No part of GUI seem to be resizable, which makes working in GUI hard. When choosing a SLA I need to scroll the SLA-policy-text-box and if I scro...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration