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Storage Protect Family

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Add a link to the RFE (Request For Enhancements) community in the SP OC UI

Have a link from SP OC to the RFE community
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

IBM SPP vSnap Seeding from a Remote Site

Customer with Remote Offices need a way to seed initial backups in the local vSNAP server with the centralised HQ rather than waiting for data to transfer over the WAN links.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

WebClient file restore GUI can handle the password change when admin using FORCEPwr=yes

The WebClient file restore GUI can not handle the password change when admin using FORCEPwr=yes.This is neccessary to give customers the an webclient access which is uesed just by the person who is asked for web access to restore.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Support for Azure Blob Immutable Storage

Cyber Resiliency of backup data using immutable storage needs to be possible using Azure Blob Immutable Storage, both in Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus, as both products are capable of storing data in Azure Blob storage.ICOS immutable ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus GUI national language support

Request for SPP GUI in Japanese.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Server for SLES 15.X

No versions of Spectrum Protect are currently support SLES15
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Node Replication & DR - Enable client backup to the Target TSM Server

Enable the BA/TDP clients to send backup data to the target server in case of a failure of the primary server (node replication enabled)
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Operation Center reports to be saved and duplicate a report template

Current version of SP OC interface doesn't allow to save report results . It has only email option.I have clients still using TSM ORT tool to save reports or email . Due the lack of save function within SP OC we can not utilise reporting.If we cre...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Add completed timestamp on failed administrative events

Add "completed" timestamp to administrative events if the administrative schedule fails.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Update of SPP image in Azure Market Place to a more recent version

The customer is deploying SPP on prem and in Azure Cloud. While they are at 10.1.15 in their on-prem setup, the image in Azure market place is still at 10.1.11, which is outdated. Request to update the Azure Marketplace image to at least 10.1.14
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Needs more information