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Node custom information user field

A 'custom information' field is desirable where we could input information in any format we as a user wish. There is no custom field to use for node details. Only 'Contact' field is available and it is not sufficient.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Re-seeding of backups from secondary to primary vSnap

SPP doesn't support re-seeding of backups from secondary to primary vSnap in the event of primary vSnap pool corruption/data loss. A full baseline backup is initiated if backups pointed to secondary or to a new built primary vSnap.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Plus support for 3rd party software installation for monitoring/automation software

ISP+ Produkt support is needed for the OVA and RHEL deployment, to install 3rd Party monitoring and automation software at the ISPP vSnap and ISPP operatingsystem layer. The ISP+ Bluprint documentation explicitly dismiss the installation for 3rd p...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

include log backups in additional copies

In version 10.1.8 transaction log backups (e.g. for MSSQL or MS Exchange) can be replicated between vSnap servers to produce redundant copies.In the "additional copies" feature only the incremental backups of the DBs/applications are copied to the...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Report showing which VM is assigned to which VMware Tag

Prospect requests a report showing which VM is assigned to which VMware Tag
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

resource aware scheduling in TSM

I work with TSM for 9 years and the biggest TSM's weakness I found is the scheduling. All the large environments I worked on used some external scheduling application like TWS or Control-M to be able to keep the resources under control. The proble...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 11 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect KMIP support for encryption

Basically requesting SP products compatibility with KMIP when using Spectrum Protect products built-in encryption capabilities.We are seeing encryption demands more and more every day and most of time customers want to have a unified encryption ke...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Add (Tape) Media livecycle

Add the ability to define a livecycle of a media. This lifecycle should contain a frequency data needs to be moved to a other media and a time a media needs do be disposed. By example, we need to define all tapes of a device class have to be copie...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Predicting/built-in intelligence

Today there are many repeatable task and manual human interaction to administer Spectrum Protect/Spectrum Protect Plus software. Examples: adjusting space reclamation, validate database backups, copy storage pool, protect storage pool processes, r...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration