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Need function in Spectrum Protect Plus to delete all backups of SQL Server database

Customer requires functionality in Spectrum Protect Plus to delete all backups of a SQL Server database. This is related to GDPR.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Future consideration

Add system node name to the description/title of any CSP ticket generated from a call home.

The overall request is to add the system node name of the originating device into the case description whenever a call home occurs that results in a case being opened. From the sample case the customer provided, the case description is “9100 DSK00...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Future consideration

Policy Overview

Protection by policy shows number of VMs protected, but doesn't allow further investigation. Should be able to click on policy and see associated VMs.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Inherited VM options on a per backup policy level

Backup policies defined on a per tag basis are allowed to inherit the parent options associated with the tag (i.e. defining proxy server, snapshot retries, application/filesystem consistency, etc.). As these options get defined for a single tag, t...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SI/SC makes reconciliation between custom and default alert policies different

SI and SC do not allow for modifying default alert policies; customer modifications require creating new policies.
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Report sorting/filter options so we can view scheduled jobs or by other custom group

With the ever growing list of reports that are being created it is getting a bit of a hassle to find the report I need. I think we need to be able to filter by active/scheduled and also by a "folder" for use as a client,manager,team, etc. It could...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Insights NAME field to reflect HMC NAME field or add it into Insights

It has come to our attention that the NAME field within Insights is actually a reference to the VOLSER from the HMC system. This i s normally not a problem, except on a multi-client box where we put the client name/code in the NAME Field. Without ...
about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 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...
about 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.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Recovery Agent for virtual environments - Save Spectrum Protect Server Connections

In recovery agent you can mount virtual machine disk based on: - spectrum protect server-- ip-- port- datamover- datacenter node The recovery agent only remember last entry. It could be very nice if it can remember different entries.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

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