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Spectrum Protect Plus support for MS SQL filestream mode

Bosch is requesting Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) support for Microsoft (MS) SQL filestream mode. SPP should support full and incremental backups and restores of MS SQL databases running in filestream mode.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP: Implement different "log options" for serviceability

SPP currently only offers one "log download" option, which always includes the vSnaps & VADP logs and a lot of SPP GUI logs.In larger envirnments with a few vSnaps & VADPs, we've seen those support packages grow to 6GB and take longer than...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow user access to remote copy relationships to be restricted by ownership groups

There is the concept of ownership groups in the Spectrum Virtualize code which allows the system administrator to restrict access to users to only those objects that are defined within that ownership group. There is a list of objects to which acce...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Customize visible Name for the Device in Browser-TAB

The customization of the visible Device-Name in the Browser-Header or Browser-Tab will be helpfull, if you have to manage multiple Devices. If you have to manage you will be able to identify the different Devices when you are able, to set the Devi...
6 months ago in Linear Tape-Open 0 Future consideration

TS7700 copy/replication time reporting in the BVIR record

To day, it is required that the customer runs VEHAUDIT to get the copy time distribution report; the same report is attached. I have been approached by couple customers who would like to see the copy time statistics is written directly to the BVIR...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Future consideration

Retention set enhancements for multiple copies and replication

Currently creating multiple copies of retention sets are restricted. Firstly, you cannot create multiple (tape) copies of a single retention set. Secondly, if a node is replicated between multiple SP servers, you cannot create a retention set on b...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus direct archive to on-prem COS

Archive in an SPP SLA policy is only available to cloud services (ICOS, AWS, etc). I am requesting that the archive function in SPP allow for S3 connectivity to on-prem COS. I have a similar request in ID#151074.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

parallel session when using node replication from tape

Need support for parallel session when using node replication from tape.When for example run a RMAN Backup with 4 session to tape, we can replicate the data with 4 sessions over 4 tape and 4 drives to other side. With Node Replication only one ses...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Add Service-Now integration to Storage Insights

For certain alerts, I don't want it to sent an email. I want it to open a ticket. I want to be able to configure various Service Now fields to allow the severity and group to be assign, along with other fields An example: caller: Storage Insights ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 3

Change mail-function for OC and reports, email support for user/password

Open relay mailserver is not a common way anymore inside organisations to handle mail. I need support (new feature / way to handle mail) for operation center for reports which supports user/password and connections to non open relay mailservers al...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

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