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Define SQL Server backup replica node in SPP for SQL Availability Group

SPP uses the SQL Server backup preferences to choose the replica SQL Server node where the backup will be made in an Avalilabity Group. However, we would like to have the possibility to define the node where the backup will take place in the SPP i...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

VMware Tags support in SPP

Current VMware Tags support in SPP need to be enhanced so customer can control backups with VMware Tags. GUI Enhancements:SPP GUI need to show VMs added to a policy with a VMware Tag under Hypervisor/Backup/<vCenter>/SLA Policy, similar to i...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Supported IBM Spectrum Protect Backup/Archive Client is needed for Red Hat Version 8

No supported IBM Spectrum Protect Backup/Archive Client for Redhat Version 8 currently exists.Unfortunately, So far there are no news or any estimated time when Spectrum Protect products will support the Redhat V8.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

Improve SVC/Virtualize FC session capabilities

SVC/Virtualize FC sessions in CSM provide just basic capabilities for FC management. This limits users for building more complex FC solutions or provisioning capabilities. Especially when using Space Efficient volumes, or when cascaded / multi-tar...
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

IBM SPP needs to display the identity used for a VADP proxy

When a VADP proxy is configured, credentials must be supplied. Whether an SPP IDENTITY is used or not is optional, but only those VADP proxies configured using an IDENTITY are automatically updated when the SPP GUI server is rebooted. Therefore, i...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP PLUS: FUNCTION TO OPEN/BROWSE ANY .EDB FILE AND EXTRAC ITS CONTENT INTO PST FILES WITHOUT EXCHANGE/API MMC(GUI)

Develop a function for SPP PLUS software to read raw Exchange .EDB files without interaction with Exchange/API and browse the database content to extract all the mailboxes into PST files simultaneously.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

S3 Object Agent: Allow non ISPP application the use of "coldpool"

In the actual release of Spectrum Protect (8.1.12) the use of the "coldpool" in a Object Domain of Spectrum Protect is limited to the archive feature of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.External S3 clients are can only use a directory container pool as a...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Ability to generate a report of all the Hydra system inventory.

Ability to generate a report of all the system inventory. -Frame serial number, hydra serial number, tssc serial number, cache controller and enclosures per frame with serial numbers, etc.
almost 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

z/VM support on CSM

Currently z/VM support is managed only via GDPS using xDR proxies (SA MP). We are running lot of applications on zVM but the binaries for z/Linux on IBM disk is minimal and the application data is from a different storage hardware and only for the...
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Container Mode support for embedded accessers

with the new AWS S3 Object Lock functionality we're opening tons of new use-cases to COS. this is great! unfortunately S3 Object Lock is only supported on container modes, not vault modes. smaller COS systems with embedded accesser configs are lim...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted