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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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    CDM support for VVols

    Customer is looking for CDM to support full VVols functionality. VVols is running in production in this customer site.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    New OS & Oracle version support for SPP

    VODAFONE TELCO need an Backup SW for those versions:It could be possible to support (three different options needed): 1) RedHat 6.42) RedHat 5.9 (if possible with Python 2.4)3) Oracle 10g They like SPP as Backup SW, but they NEED to support those ...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    SPP 10.1.1 removed ability for user to change their own password?

    In SPP 10.1.1, it appears a natively defined user is not able to change their own password which is a change from previous version of 10.1.0.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Include fonts and other resources to GUI (Spp server)

    Please remove external links to fonts etc from GUI. Management clients does not have access to internet. So, we have to wait for timeouts before continuing.
    8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

    Detect and delete previous snapshot operation under Vcenter or mark the backup failure for corresponding Virtual Machine

    Its useful to avoid reach out the maximum capacity of Vcenter snapshots. SPP must be able to detect the situation, where there are a lot of unsuccessful removed and consolidated snapshot, have to stop the operation and mark the Backup as failure f...
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

    SCDM needs to support DASD devices on LinuxONE

    LinuxONE applications like Oracle desire application consistent snapshots. The benefit would be a tables-stakes function of a storage solution to provide data integrity.
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

    Create Reports for Data which is send to Object Storage for single Clients / Servers

    Hello actually we need to create Reports for Data which is sent from SPP to TSM Object Storage within additional copies and archives. I can not find a report type in SPP which supports the report for data amounts for additional copies / archives. ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

    Possibility for monthly and annual Archiving to TSM Tape

    When configuring additional copies with offload on TSM, you can only use container pools for storage, but container pools cannot be migrated to tape. Since we only use all-flash SAN storage, this is a very costly solution. For our customer, we nee...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

    Improvement to the upgrading process of MGMT server

    The upgrade process is apparently not perfect. I was "kicked" out from the upgrade progress page, before process completed and that can cause confusion? The reason i was kicked out, was that the update components/package was updated ? A suggestion...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    OSSM Proxy on the same server as SP OSSM Server

    currently on VSNAP servers we have the ability to also run the vadp proxy on the same server. with OSSM this is not possible. we need to have separate proxies as using the SP OSSM server as a OSSM proxy doesnt work. having separate vm proxies requ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

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