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Change the status of this type of error , so no PARTIAL status is returned. Only some warnings in job log.

Error Message in the Application Inventory Job, which ends the Job partially (This trigger always a Ticket): [example.server.ch] A running instance was not found for database EXAMPLE. This error is raised because autostart is enabled in oratab. A ...
25 days ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

lowering the permissions to view access logs

User permission role set to "VIEW LOG" will to give user access to all LOGS.It will not be able to see "FAILED LOGIN". Only SUPERUSER can see this type of entries. That permissions are to height to check logs only, especially in third party script...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Make VSNAP Application Independent of OS Kernel

ISPP VSNAP Application on Physical Server is bound to specific Kernel Version. Upgrade of Redhat Version cause Application to fail and it doesnot come up.
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SCDM - RFE title Granular LDAP queries than trying to scan in the entire AD Domain.

Storage Copy Data Management - We currently cannot handle scale for the amount of LDAP groups that are being attempted to be loaded for a case. Based on the error displaying an "out of memory" error message, it appears that the issue is related to...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Ability to delete volumes from vSnap storage.

The ability to empty or move data from existing storage disks and then delete the disks volumes from a vSnap server would make the process of changing the underlying storage environment much easier. If we want to change out an EOS/EOL storage arra...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Azure HCI support for SPP

Hallo Please consider support for Azure HCI.
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable to bulk select the Hard disk1 or other hardidisk of all the VMS to protect.

There is no way using the GUI to bulk-select all 'Hard disk 1' of all the VMs to protect. I want to protect only harddisk 1 (OS disk) Via SPP. But need to do it 1 by 1. There should be filter out disks for complete landscape.
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Make GUI less mouse-scrolling-mayham

When working in GUI (I long for a CLi) it is divided into different parts using scrollable text-boxes. No part of GUI seem to be resizable, which makes working in GUI hard. When choosing a SLA I need to scroll the SLA-policy-text-box and if I scro...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Improve VM Restore GUI

Remove the necessity of choosing "Type of Restore." Make one of the options (on-demand) the default. Add a button to show all available restore points without having to poke around in the calendar.
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

CDM: Allow parallel mounts/restores to proxy/remote host (Windows)

CDM should allow and handle right mounting multiple snapshots of same type/application to another host (mount proxy/remote host) at the same time (Windows). Intention is to offload multiple MSSQL Server snapshots in parallel. It seems that OS/SCSI...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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