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SPP - Support Incremental Backup of Exchange DBs on ReFS

Customer has recently replaced Commvault with IBM SPP. Only Full Exchange backups are working as the customer is using ReFS.Also, since SPP is using VSS of the Exchange Server, backup of the 2nd Exchange DB cannot be started unless the backup of f...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Future consideration

extend the eventlog - type Audit 'A cartridge setting was changed'

When a physical tape is moved to the i/O station or a drive a audit statement in the eventlog will be create. In this record are no information about the cartridge and no information about the target destination(drive oder I/O Station). The sendin...
12 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library Future consideration

SPP Migrate Offloaded Data between different Cloud Providers

Spectrum Protect Plus should provide a functionality to migrate offloaded backups between cloud providers.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Future consideration

Make IBM Tape boxes able to generate a CSR much like their DASD counterparts

The IBM Tape boxes (TS7) currently do not allow the generation of a CSR (certificate signing request). This means you have to generate a certificate off of the box and upload both private and public keys. This is a gross misuse of security and I c...
about 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

Get a cartridge lifetime report of entire library inventory via REST API

Current mount history report is limited to 100 entries. Options to retrieve required information is available: REST API option /v1/dataCartridges/SYD197L9 contains cartridge lifetime, but customer needs to filter out required information. Since TS...
over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library Future consideration

Task import/export feature

It will be helpful to have the ability to export and import schedule tasks. This will facilitate the creation of schedules as well as the ability to copy them to different servers. Currently creating multiple, complex multi task schedule is time c...
5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

customize commandapproval commands

SP 'set commandapproval' doesn't allow to customize the predefined list of commands. Security needs are different from customer to customer.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Future consideration

Capability to throttle vdisk by defining a goal response time (possibility to delay an I/O to a value)

There are an increasing number of clients asking for the functionality of specifying the goal response time of a volume (vdisk), so that it doesn't go faster than this goal and does not use resources that could be used by other volumes.
over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

Free space on Flash Copy target devices after a Terminate command

A FC no-copy relation only copies data if the source has been changed (new data has been written). If the primary device has been fully updated all tracks have been copied to the target device and thoses devices are no more in a FC relationship. W...
12 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

Support DB2 HADR in Spectrum Protect Plus

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus works perfectly with DB2 databases. Unfortunately for all our critical databases, which are replicated using DB2 HADR, backup and restore with Spectrum Protect Plus is currently not supported.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Future consideration

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