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Storage Protect Family

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TDP for SQL 2012 in Windows 2016

We have 2 Windows Server 2016 with both SQL 2012 and SQL 2016 instances.We need a TDP client version compatible with these three components, so we can backup all Databases in both SQL versions.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - Sortable & Searchable columns in running jobs progress & job logs

Requesting sort and search functions be added to the Spectrum Protect Plus UI. Specifically in the Jobs and Operations section, while viewing a job log and progress fields.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Non-SSL adhoc node restoration not possible to initiate

Non-SSL Node adhoc restoration not possible configured to IBM Spectrum Protect Server 8.1.3 We have active directory authentication enabled for our spectrum protect admin session which requires SSL. But all of our nodes are still running in Non-SS...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

File Type retention storage pool

Only Tape class is supported as Retention Pool however many customer that has NAS appliance as secondary backup storage instead of Tape like to use retention set with a copy to secondary storage.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Have the ability to choose the backup node in oracle

Spectrum protect plus does not currently have the ability to choose the preferred node for backups in the case of oracles like in the exchange for example, and we have this in question for some customers, who do not want to change in oracle
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

OpCenter NAS Filesystems

Should be able to see NAS/NDMP filespaces as a column in Operation Center, and track last backup date. Expectation:Operation Center -> Clients -> NAS Filesystems* Just like Virtual Machines expands out the entities and filespaces for each VM...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

BackupSet tape Migration

We have backupsets created on 3592-JB tapes and we need to migrate these backupsets to 3592-JD tapes.We are in the process of discarding all JB tapes and TS1130 tape drive.We will have only TS1160 tape drives which can not read JB tapes.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TSM repository server is not supported as catalog backup target for SPP+ (enable catalog backup to repository server)

Using the SPP+ gui you can select a TSM repository server as a target for catalog backup for SPP+. I have opened a call with IBM support (TS013178083) because at 10.1.14-217 release at least of SPP+ no matter how you configure the TSM S3 repositor...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Lanfree Backup to COS/S3/Blob Storage

Enable Lan free backup support for Multi Cloud. Allow nondedup container pool.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

backup hyper-v 2012 the backup is work but we have error 12

We have backup server with windows 2012r2 and we install IBM SPECTRUM PROTECT SERVER 8.1.6 we have hyper-v 2012 r2 with 12 hosts with cluster , we install ibm spectrum protect for hyper-v 8.1.6 i want to backup only two vritual machines with linux...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration