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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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SPP report creation

Spectrum Protect Plus has very interesting reports, but we need some individual views in virtual machine backup. We need to know, for example, the time and end of the backup of a respective VM individually and not just the time that the total SLA ...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

VM's Removing from SLA

We have identified and issue where VM's are automatically removing from SLA due to xyz reason and got to know this is as per design. So we should have some info report where we can see how many VM's removed automatically from SLA after last backup...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Backup SLA hung

More generic job timeout option if for any reason a database/VM backup would hold the entire job
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support of HyperV VM tags to select resources to backup

Ability to select the resources to backup based on VM tags in a HyperV environment (same functionality as for VMware)
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Individual Creation of SLA/User/Identity (tenant based account)

Dear IBM,Our customer Requires Ability to create his own SLA policies and assign VM's/DB's/Filesystems in it. Ability to create his own users and assign him role of limited capabilityAbility to create his own identities (for inventory of VM's most...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP: Enable filesystem & DB Backup at the same time

When looking in the System requirements for SPP, the following restriction is mentioned: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6421231 Only one application server or file server can be assigned per host. For example, if a host is registered as a ...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Possibility to configure all log retentions or group them like Job Logs , Access Log and System Logs in SPP

Possibility to configure all log retentions or group them like Job Logs , Access Log and System Logs in SPP.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Centralized Configuration Management for SPP Server

Provide option of centralized configuration management for SPP when using multiple SPP Servers.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Provide a CLI (OS) command spp_status on the SPP Server to have a quick view if all required processes are up and running

Similar to the CLI (OS) command vsnap_status on the vSnap server provide a CLI (OS) command spp_status on the SPP Server to have a quick view if all required processes are up and running.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

SCDM should allow for customization of permissions it sets on Oracle directories, or just leave the permissions alone.

SCDM changes the existing permissions on the /apps/oracle/admin directory and other files when an instant oracle database restore is performed. SCDM should either put them back exactly the way were before the restore job started, or allow for cust...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration