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Containerpool Backup to File Device Class

Add support for backup of Directory Container Pools to Copypools using File Device Class.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Define object limits per user

Hi In case we are creating partitions on the Storage, and now for example OCP env using CSI driver , customer is now define user and script to create volumes/snapshots.If there is human error - the script can run in a loop - cause the system to re...
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Central gui for agents

New GUI that you can install on a machine and then use to add all your backup agents, and where you can centrally manage backup/options/restore, and maybe even read log files.
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

New client/API interface

Make a new client interface for data communication on SP-server. Which can support new functionality and to which ALL new clients will use. Clients can then have: * Auto upgrade clients, option in server and node* Better agent, functionality* And ...
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Migration of Backup-Jobs between SPP MasterServers

Export/Import of specific SLA's, Nodes, Backups incl. all necessary data from SPP Server1 to Server2 (e.g. new install SPP or existing installations) on node level on SLA level on backup job (SnapShot) level
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

Progress bar for Node Replication

My customer needs a progress indicator, how much data have already been replicated. At the moment, there is no progress bar in the Operations Center ? There are the PMRs: TS001082298, TS000931890, TS000896249
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container Backup Support in the Red Hat OpenShift environment running on POWER platform

Customer is creating new AI workloads on OpenShift running on IBM POWER servers. Spectrum Protect Plus v10.1.7 supports Linux x86_64, but not Linux on POWER.OpenShift is designed to enable portability to multiple platforms, but Spectrum Protect Pl...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Support less than 1 day of Oracle archlogs to be kept on system

ISPP leaves a archive logs on an Oracle system for a certain amount of time, which is needed for recovery, altough Logs are also stored in ISPP on the vSnap share.Unfortunately this amount of time is set in days, so the least time is one day, whic...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

File Level Restore Enhancements

Requests from customer to improve the File Level Restore recovery capability in SPP and add the following: 1) Add an include list as well as an exclude list under VM options > select options 2) Collect data for and add a date modified field so ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

optimize output in the microcode "health check" panel in the DSGUI

We moved from 89.32.40.0 to 89.33.35.0 using the internal microcode function of the DS GUI.Everything works fine, but we think that the UX and GUI output of the "System Health Check" could be visualy better. So you can better understand what you s...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

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