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Spectrum Protect for ERP

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We need application consistent Safeguarded Copy protect for SAP R/3

We have multiple customers that are still using SAP R/3 for a while before switching to SAP HANA. Since ERP is part of their minimum viable company, we need a way to safeguard this application.
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Under review

can not use Spectrum protect over san in ERP Database

We was working with AIX os and use Spectrum protect to backup the ERP Database on it using Oversan We moved the production server to SUSE enterprise 15 , but now the problem as in the case that over san is not supported with suse 15, and it is urg...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Future consideration

SAP HANA setup for multiple backup retentions (monthly, yearly and so on)

When customers need multiple retentions for SAP HANA, they need to use the script provided by IBM to temporarily change to a new UTL, or point a single different stanza in HANAs cockpint, which could put monthly backups in jeopardy since they will...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Future consideration

parallel SAP HANA Log Backup of HDBBackint to two destinations

customer wants to change the way HDBackint works with two destinations.'REDOLOG_COPIES 2' is slower than'REDOLOG_COPIES 1', because of the way how the logs are being processedby hdbbackint:.hdbbackint uses one thread for reading a data buffer from...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

SAP HANA backup status reporting in Spectrum Protect OC

Spectrum Protect Operations Center does not report nor is aware if a Backup is successful or if it is failed. Instead a log is created on every server which we have to manually parse and reactively report a backup failure. This is an effort since ...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

Support for SLES 15 using Spectrum Protect DP for HANA

I need a statement of support for DP for ERP SAP HANA on SLES 15
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Planned for future release

Restrict ProLE access to host-only

ProLE process listens on port 57321/tcp (configurable, may differ) on all IPs and network adapters for connections. One of our customers stumbled upon this during a security scan and considers it to be a security risk. Since in my understanding Pr...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Planned for future release

TDP for ERP - Support for Oracle 12c

TDP for ERP is not supported for Oracle 12c.Oracle 12c was certified for SAP on March 2015.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Not under consideration

Hana DB & Log filsystem split

For our regular restore test we do export/import between zone server and central one.If we want to export a DB backup and 7 days of logs we have the problem that all of this goes to the same filesystem /tdpmux and if we export from a ranged period...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to use the "dedup_device" with TSM for ERP (DB2) Product

Customer backup its DB2 database with Sp. Protect (ex TSM) ; backup storage is ProtecTIER (IBM Open deduplication solution). In order to boost both backup / restaure performances and deduplication ratio the 'dedup_device' option has been be set up...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration