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Storage Protect Family

Ability to schedule maintenance policy

Allow user to modify the time at which the maintenance policy will be started. An acceptable workaround would be to change the start time via a REST API call.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Delivered

Schedule Hypervisor Inventory Job

Schedule Hypervisor Inventory Job
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Delivered

Ability to Schedule report

Ability to define scheduling of Reports in SPP 10.1.2
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Delivered

CANCEL PROTECT or DURATION on PROTECT STGPOOL

CANCEL PROTECT and/or a DURATION option for PROTECT STGPOOL is needed.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Delivered

Being able to use other IDs besides SYSTEM ID for HANA Backup Setup

IBM Support/SME confirmed that user ID that is used for the setup.sh needs to be SYSTEM ID as per the documentation provided.This RFE is for our developers to allow other users IDs with the required privileges to be able to run the setup.sh for SA...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Delivered

ISP4VE- Additional Tagging documentation for powershell

In the user´s guide there is no example or explanation how to set tags via powershell. It´s mentioned that for example the quiescing paramter can be set manual via powershell but not how...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Delivered

Spectrum Protect Plus Logging

Having only the GUI to see which backups are currently running or having only the Reports after a successful backup, I'd appreciate to get the Information displayed as well using the REST API or commandline.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Delivered

Storage pool Protect query

The Protect command In Spectrum Protect writes data to a target storage pool. There is no way to display the 'protected' data that resides in the target pool. Something like Q OCC PROTECT nodename/stgpoolname . And it would also be nice to know ah...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Delivered

LDAP outage should not prevent DSMSERV startup

If LDAP is unreachable dsmserv refuses to start. This should NOT be a requirement. This inserts additional delay and troubleshooting into network outages.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Delivered

SP+ Syslog alerting

Please add an ability to have events sent via syslog messages to external receivers. There should be an ability to include select informational events for login/logout security auditing as well as backup and restore events.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Delivered

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