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Storage Protect Family

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How to calculate backed data volume on Replication / SPPArchive / Cloud storage?

HalloBacked up date is storing on BACKUP vsnap and then are copied to REPLCATION VSNAP (and maybe Cloud, SPPArchive/tape) We can easily calculate size of backed up date on BACKUP vsnap based on output from this endpoint: "/api/endeavour/catalog/re...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

SPP multi-domain support

Please provide multi-domain authentication to SPP.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support TSM Storage Agent to be used in virtual machines for "Serverfree" backup to shared disk

IBM GPFS is a supported file system for performing "server free" backups to shared disks (similar to LANfree backups, which are going from a TSM client system with TSM for SAN directly to a tape). At the moment, this method (Server free backup to ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 2 Not under consideration

Log server tcp port as well together with client ip/port in access log.

Today the server logs entries similar to the following: 03/03/22 09:02:58 ANR0406I Session 83331 started for node HOST.EXAMPLE.COM (Linux x86-64) (SSL host.example.com[dead:beef::1]:45186). (SESSION: 83331) However, there is no logging of which se...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Support vSnap migration by re-mapping the back-end volumes to another server

Support a vSnap migration from back-end disks from one server to a different server by re-mapping the back-end volumes to the new server
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

To pull graphical representing reports from operation center

Add a feature to pull reports in form of bar/pie, graphical representing reports from operation Centre.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

Support of Sharedmemory feature for TSM (ISP) DB Backup on Windows Platforms

Dear Dev. team,Please incorporate support of sharedmemory feature for TSM DB backup on Windows Platforms.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Implement server certificate information in OC

Implement server certificate information in operations centre to prevent from the need to connect to system and using difficult gsk commands.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

add ability to create certificate signing request to SP+ interface

The SP+ admin UI allows us to provide a real (non self signed ) certificate but does not provide a way to create a certificate signing request which is necessary to obtain a real certificate. We need a supported way to create CSRs
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

More granularity for Retention Rule

To be able to choose directory(ies) in Retention Rule to have more flexibility. Most of the time, needs are to create a retention set on specific directory, not all the filespace.SP well know all the backed up directories and files from a node. Th...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

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