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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Move Restored VM in test mode to production (vMotion)

Restore VMware quickly and move to production environment
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

SCDM notify on failure only

SCDM should have an option to send notification emails on job failures only instead of for every result. I don't really need an email for a successful job.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SCDM should support daylight savings time

SCDM should support daylight savings time
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

File Indexing numbers

Need to add option to get current utilization of file indexing numbers as we have limit in SPP
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration