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SAP HANA setup for multiple backup retentions (monthly, yearly and so on)

When customers need multiple retentions for SAP HANA, they need to use the script provided by IBM to temporarily change to a new UTL, or point a single different stanza in HANAs cockpint, which could put monthly backups in jeopardy since they will...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Future consideration

AWS EC2 Snapshot replication and copy

Allow an AWS EC2 snapshot to be ingested by SPP's repository and the ability of creating other copies, using replication and copy/offload features.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

ISPP support multiple networks for VSNAP and ESXi hosts

We have a admin LAN and a Backup Lan, it is currently not possible however to control which Network is used for the different dataflows.1) ESXi servers can have multiple interfaces however ISPP always uses the ESX management lan for restore/nfs mo...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

SPP: Progress bar for Replication & Archive

Currently ISPP only shows a working progress bar for Backups. For Jobs like Replication and Cloud Offload the bar stays at 0% until the end and then jumps to 100%.This is a problem when monitoring tasks and trying to get a rough estimate how long ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

New Client Option to force backup by file attribute change

Configuration: Linux/UNIX Filesystem B/A Client Problem: After a chmod or chown command on a file, it is not possible to go back to the state before customers change when a new file backup was made. Because only the attribute in the DB was...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus supporting SAP HANA

Spectrum Protect Plus supporting backup and recovery of SAP HANA.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Update vSnaps over SPP GUI / Dashboard

We would like to be able to update one or more vSnaps through the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus GUI / Dashboard.Currently we have to update the vSnaps manually via the cli on the vSnap server itself.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Introduce support for AD objects & containers

Introduce support for AD objects & containers
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect prevent massive deletion from client side

In today's world, more than ever we are tracking any kind of destructive operation. Command approval feature recently added prevent the SP admin to do massive data deletion from server side but we are still lacking the same protection mechanism if...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Improve performance when retrieving partial tapes by using RAO/oRAO on supported tape drives

IBM Enterprise tape drives (TS1140/3592-E07 onwards) supports Recommended Access Order (RAO). LTO-9 drives supports Open Recommended Acces Order (oRAO). This feature allows a tape drive to advise an application on the optimum retrieval order based...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration