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Storage Protect Family

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Support for SP container pool storage tiering in SPP

For customers performing storage tiering between directory and cloud container pools within SP, they would like to SPP to be aware and support this functionality. For now data that has been tiered affect the primary source pool and prevent it from...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

SPP vSnap Storage Utilization report needs to run Storage Server Inventory Job automatically

When the Spectrum Protect Plus Reporting generates a report for vSnap Storage Utilization it does not use the vSnap Storage statistics from the moment the report is generated. Instead it uses the statistics of the last run of the Storage Server In...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

SP Protect Plus support for backing up DB installed in power LPARS

to accelerate the SP Protect plus adoption in customers is required that the product be able to backup DataBases running in Power AIX Logical Partitions.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

HUB scalability

This is a request to improve the parallelization of spoke data ingest and processing on hub servers. There appears to be a single-threaded component, or some sort of processing bottleneck.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Delivered

Support for Ontap 9.5 with BA Client

There is no documentation for support of BA client backups of Ontap 9.5 on NetApp appliances. The highest mentioned is Ontap 9.3 supported bu 8.1.4. I have a customer that is about to migrate to a new data center and as part of this move replace t...

date format in SP Operations center

Please add options to change date/time format in IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center.Now there is only US date/time format (am/pm)
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Delivered

Move automatic client deployment from DES to AES authentication

Currently automatic client deployment is only possible if the dsmserv option ALLOWDESAUTH is set to YES. Otherwise the client deployment will fail.Documented here - see Restrictions:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEQVQ_8.1.9/srv.r...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Abiloty to backup Spectrum Protect Database to Cloud

With the movement to cloud based storage, Spectrum protect needs to be able to back up its database to cloud storage to allow local restore of the entire database for DR. This could be required where:1. Customer has single SP server, and no targer...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Ability to Schedule report

Ability to define scheduling of Reports in SPP 10.1.2
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 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.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered