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Ability to backup Oracle databases (11gR2+) running on Oracle Enterprise Linux

Ability to backup Oracle databases (11gR2+) running on Oracle Enterprise Linux.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Add Storage Class Attribute to Data Pushed to S3

When pushing data to S3 via the Cloudgateway service it would be helpful to be able to specify the storage class. If you don't specify the storage class the data will be stored in S3 Standard. You can create a Lifecycle policy to push the data to ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

« Key Management Interoperability Protocol » (KMIP) support

We would like the IBM TS4500 library to support the KMIP protocol in order to use a different encryption key manager than the IBM SGKLM software
8 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Creation of the O365 account automatically from SPP

When configuring backup of O365 the account and all required permissions shall be automatically applied from SPP
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

GENERATE BACKUPSET hang on huge amount of data

Based on PMR 54452,740,740, we would like to modify the DB2 schema/indicies, or else to able to generate backupset with huge amount of data stored under a single node.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

node canister replacement fix procedure

The Run fix to replace the canister is missing a step.It doesn't run the "satask chbootdrive -replacecanister" under the covers or mention that the command needs to be run on the replacement node. The instructions are in the Knowledge Center but w...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

SI no longer shows data collection logs

Recent versions of SI have removed the ability to view data collection logs.
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

VADP Proxy should be available as an appliance

The SPP server is available as an appliancevSnap server is available as an appliancebut VADP Proxy requires install of RHEL and installation of VADP Proxy software.This doesn't make any sense since the VADP Proxy already are part of the SPP server...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Ad hoc snapshot which is generated from daily backup for weekly / monthly / Yearly

Spectrum Protect Plus Ad hoc snapshot which is generated from daily backup for weekly / monthly / Yearly Currently we need to create new SLA for create additional weekly / monthly / yearly which need additional backup windows time and additional s...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add option to send added 'semi-preformated' text with an emailed alert.

We want to send some alerts to our ticketing system. We've put in a separate idea for that integration. In the meantime, we'd like the ability to provide semi-preformated text to alerts. If we could do that, then we can send alerts to the ticketin...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

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