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GUI Audit Log Improvements

Streamline GUI Audit logging. It's a little noisy which makes it a challenge to seek out legitimate events. There are also basic critical events/actions that should be included which appear to be missing.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable option to manually add ESXi host for restore onto

Restore function request – Recover to ESXi host - should option to manually add rather than just poll inventorised ESXi hosts
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable the setting of a VM name on clone and production restores

Enable the ability to set a VM name on clone and production restores and on move into production and clone operations for active clones (test restores)
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

VM details in Dashboard

Show list of VMs protected and SLA protected under and VMs not protected as a list in the Dashboard. Customers want to know which VMs have successfully backed up overnight and which have failed. The Dashboard does a good job of showing this at an ...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

different failoverhladdresses for nodes

there is only the option to set failoverhladdress globally. but if there are tsmnodes coming through many different interfaces, there is no way to set this for each interface or at least node-specific
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

SQL log backup status

The status of the SQL log backup is found only in the job log. We would like the log backups to be more visible and easy to check for success or failure. The Dashboard or on the section named Application - SQL - Backup would be helpful.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support multiple Operation Centers

We would like to use multiple OC´s to support remote monitoring in parallell with local OC. This is not possible today, but needed for our remote monitoring process. Maybe the local OC could feed some "cloud"-service (like CMC for HMC and power sy...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

parallel SAP HANA Log Backup of HDBBackint to two destinations

customer wants to change the way HDBackint works with two destinations.'REDOLOG_COPIES 2' is slower than'REDOLOG_COPIES 1', because of the way how the logs are being processedby hdbbackint:.hdbbackint uses one thread for reading a data buffer from...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

need tape disaster recovery ability for Spectrum Protect Plus

Enable Spectrum Protect to be a disaster recovery target for Spectrum Protect Plus.This would provide tape based disaster recovery of Spectrum Protect Plus.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Option to update server certificate via command line

Official CA server certificates have to be exchanged every year. There should be a method, other than the GUI, to replace these certificates automatically (via ansible, puppet, etc.). Therefore a command line option (scp) is needed!
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration