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Storage Protect Family

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VADP Proxy load statistics dashboard

Add dashboard that shows load per per proxy (and # of tasks executed) per exectured SLA. Provide more system performance info; Are all proxy's used?, are proxys rightly scaled? are all jobs active etc.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

TSM API for IBMi

The TSM API is no longer supported on an IBMi. During our upgrade to V7.1 we opened a PMR because we had a question/problem but the PMR was closed with a resolution that the API is not supported.We implemented an IBMi to TSM solution as a logical ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Offload/Copy ALL VSNAP DATA to Cloud Object Storage (not only the last backup)

Ability to Offload/Copy ALL VSNAP DATA to Cloud Object Storage (not only the last backup)
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Adding Mmgt-Class to the "query event" output

There is a customer requirement to generate a report from event table .. to have a daily overview from client backup .. to have start time, endtime, and status from each backup. Additionally the customer need the output from the client, which Mgmt...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Functionality already exists

SPP dashboard to marked out following the RBAC settings

In the Dashboard page, we saw the coverage. Although some users are scoped using RBAC functionality, the coverage is not updated in this regard.Same about the policy preview Is there a way to show the user his own perimeter? for exemple DBA team s...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

To fix the backup issue happening due to the mounted snapshot for FLR

As of now the backups are failing for the VMs for which the backup snapshots are in mounted state for FLR. There are some critical restore request which takes plenty of time to copy the files (due to size) and we are forced to keep the VM mounted....
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management to support FS and Application for the same client

An Application Server Provider is defined as an application (HANA, System Cache, SQL, Oracle) or File System. Why not both Oracle and File System? for example
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

More control over "disable sessions" for client nodes

Sometimes it may be necessary to prevent clients from connecting to a Spectrum Protect Server to perform backups. Reasons for this can be, for example, maintenance work on the Spectrum Protect Server, where access to the storage pool is not given....
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Customisation of reports - possibility to add a customer logo

We would like to have the possibility to add a customer logo to the report mails and to change the format of the output from the SQL queries.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect required two separate solutions for virtual and physical systems

My client needs two separate solutions for virtual and physical systems. They need IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for virtual systems and Spectrum Protect for physical systems, and that's a pain. It would be an improvement if they were combined.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Functionality already exists