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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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VM job reports

Spectrum Protect Plus reports don't meet our requirements.We can see if backups completed without any fails in the last 24 hour. Also VM SLA report can show us if VMs are in compliance. But it's not enough.There must be a report which shows if all...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management to leverage existing storage replication relationships

IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management for SAP/HANA environment
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Prevent Maintenance Tasks from reporting a warning when behaving as expected.

SPP can display events in the maintenance task, such as snapshots locked because of dependencies, as a warning in the summary dashboard. These however are expected behaviour with no action required. Displaying such events as a warning can be misle...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Trigger email/report when sla run contains failed vms

If a job that has run contains failed vms, sytem should send out email/report to pre-defined address to report this incident.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Application Inventory Job Change Report/Alert

An Oracle database that exists on the database server is no longer being found or displayed in SPP. This is not considered a failure, so no reporting is provided. Customer needs an alert or report to see the changes to the inventory job. The parti...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus: Enhance schedule daily, weekly,monthly and yearly

Spectrum Protect Plus: Enhance schedule daily, weekly,monthly and yearly Currently we need to create with multiple SLA for different schedule of daily, weekly, monthly.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Ability to replicate all VSNAP backup data to a new VSNAP

Ability to Replicate all VSNAP backup data to a new VSNAP, not only new backups that happens after the replication is setup (as happen today).
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Need expanded reporting capabilities in SPP

Customer is unable to do true custom reporting to get reports that are meaningful to their business units. Currently there are only the canned reports in PDF format available. Customer would like to have the ability to build out reports in a simil...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Hard to find target host/cluster for VM restore when many hosts/clusters available

The restore of a VM to an alternate host becomes very problematic when many hosts are available. The customer I am working with has an environment that creates a list page count of over 800 in the restore UI of SPP. It won't be possible to find th...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Allow a global exclude for a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job

Allow globally to exclude a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job, like the function to exclude complete VMs via the Policy Options or by using a specific VM tag.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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