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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

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

Update of SPP image in Azure Market Place to a more recent version

The customer is deploying SPP on prem and in Azure Cloud. While they are at 10.1.15 in their on-prem setup, the image in Azure market place is still at 10.1.11, which is outdated. Request to update the Azure Marketplace image to at least 10.1.14
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Needs more information

remove systemV init.d script for DSMCAD

The current packaging of TIVsm-BA includes a symbolic link /etc/init.d/dsmcad -> /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/rc.dsmcad which results in the creation of the directory /etc/init.d if it does not already exist. This is incompatible with the chkc...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Include database instance name in SPP report

On Microsoft SQL servers we have multiple databases running on multiple instances. It would be helpful in the SPP database report to indicate which instance on an MSSQL server the backup was for.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

REPLICATE NODE * DOMAIN=OFFSITE_*

Ability to replicate all nodes in one or more policy domains. Presently, only by node_name, or by nodegroup. There is no way to automatically update a nodegroup membership list.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

audit container markdamaged needs to update inventory objects as damaged

Any process that marks extents damaged should queue a process to mark those objects damaged which rely on the extents. AUDIT CONTAINER ACTION=MARKDAMAGED only marks extents damaged, so inventory objects stay not-damaged. Even later, if they are ac...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

DEFINE STGRULE with directory container target

DEFINE STGRULE needs to allow directory containers as target pools, not just cloud pools.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Expand SP S3 object client interface to allow targeting tape for users outside of SPP

Multiple customers have requested that we allow Spectrum Protect to receive data via S3 and store that data on tape. They need a deep/cold archiving solution with air-gap and optional immutability and encryption at-rest support.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Redesign DELETE FILESPACE for reduced log pinning and active log utilization

DELETE FILESPACE pins the DB2 active log st the start, and considers the entire deletion one transaction. This is not how ingested data is handled. Because of this disparity, it is possible to receive a large object, such as an NDMP backup, which ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

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