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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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    Enable the setting of a VM name on clone and production restores

    Enable the ability to set a VM name on clone and production restores and on move into production and clone operations for active clones (test restores)
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    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

    SQL Recovery Model change is not properly handled

    ISPP doesn't handle changes of the SQL recovery model from "full" to "simple" as it would be suitable for a enterprise product.When a DB with Log Backup enabled is changed to simple recovery model, there will be warnings that the log backup is fai...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Spectrum Protect Plus: Replication Job ends in error when replicating only MSSQL transaction logs

    Based on our SLA with the customer we need to synchronize SQL log backups to the secondary vSnap server ( with the replication job) every two hours. The replication job after the backup job is always successful, because volumes for data+log backup...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    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...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Retain last X backups beyond date based expiration

    Retain a configurable amount of backups beyond date based retention, requiring administrator action to delete.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    SLA schedules are removed to early from ISPP

    When the last VM or Database is removed from a SLA policy ISPP will also remove the complete schedule for this SLA.Unfortunately this also includes all post processes like replication or archiving, which means the backup data will not be copied to...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

    Update VM success/failed summary for a job dynamically

    When multiple VMs are being backed up there is no indication of how many VMs have been saved or have failed until the job is complete. The audit log for the job shows that some VMs have completed successfully and some have failed. Can the successf...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    SCDM - Re-use SSH sessions for IBM SVC Storage

    Spectrum Copy Data Management creates new SSH sessions when running SVC CLI commands. Each CLI commands requires opening an SSH session and once the CLI command completes, closing the SSH session. Instead of opening a new SSH session for every CLI...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) needs to be installable in Azure

    Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) server and vSnap needs to be installable in Azure.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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