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Storage Protect Family

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TDP for ERP - Support for Oracle 12c

TDP for ERP is not supported for Oracle 12c.Oracle 12c was certified for SAP on March 2015.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Not under consideration

Renaming MDF & LDF files during restore

Hello, The renaming of source MDF and LDF files for MSSQL DB during restore operation is basic functionality of any backup/restore software. It provides effective way how to store and structuralize files of DB. Since restored DB is usually new DB ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Choose wich disc to restore in Data Protection for Hyper-V

In Dataprotection for Hyper-V it would be very nice if we can choose wich disc to restore.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Replication should not hang if target pool is hung

When replicating to a cloud pool target, if a Disk to Cloud Transfer is hung, then replication hangs. Replication should have a timeout so that it can skip, abort, etc. rather than winding up locks.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

Chaining Opscenters for REST API via one central Opscenter

Having several Opscenters managing several Spectrum Protect Instances, and having currently the restriction only to have 1 Hub server, this makes Management by branches and departments complicated. Therefore we appreciate to group Servers of speci...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Report Enhancement giving more detailed into

I believe a report is neaded the gives more details. This is the info that I would like to see in a single report:1. The full path to the VM that is displayed under the "Search for..." box in SPP panels such as: Manage Protection - Virtual Systems...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Azure AVS support for Spectrum Protect for VE and SPP

The client of a BP would like to continue using Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments as they migrate their vmware farm to Microsoft Azure AVS.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Recommision node / reverting decommission node command

Implementing a recommission node command to stop the decommission node process without restoring database.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

RC=12 is not required for successful processing.

When the IBM Spectrum Protect backup/archive client detects that a self-signed digital certificate has expired, the expiration date is updated, but RC=12 is returned and "ANS1579E" is recorded.The process is successful and I would like RC=0 to be ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Is a defect

set disableDeduplication = bTrue for DSM_OBJ_DIRECTORY objects

Clarification of API document regarding client side deduplication, and that this has to be disabled for driectory type of objects objAttrArea.disableDeduplication = bTrue;objName.objType = DSM_OBJ_DIRECTORY; Or better; update the API so that clien...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

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