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TDP for Database SQL

ISP Server V8.1.11ISP Client V8.1.9TDP for Database SQL 8.1.9 AlwaysOn DB configured on TDP for Database SQL with11 Instance (Active/Inactive) containing more than 70 SQL Database using MMC. Problem:When doing selective Restore (Active and Inactiv...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Unable to configure VM Backup for Nutanix using the existing solution Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

Hello Team, Due to some requirement our VM are been migrated from existing ESXi environment to Nutanix and now we realized that we are unable to configure the Backups for the VM's using existing solution Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments C...

Node replication based on managementclass or storagepool

Currently node replication can only be issued on a node/filespace basis and backup/archive data. A big global bank has the requirement to replicate all data cross country which are older than 5 years. The data can't be distinguished by filespace o...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

Progress bar for Node Replication

My customer needs a progress indicator, how much data have already been replicated. At the moment, there is no progress bar in the Operations Center ? There are the PMRs: TS001082298, TS000931890, TS000896249
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

SPP Allow Multiple IBM COS Accessors or Load Balancer for Offload to On-Prem IBM COS

Customer needs the ability to configure the "Copy" portion of their SLA Policy to allow either a load balancer or multiple endpoints to be configured.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Change the status of this type of error , so no PARTIAL status is returned. Only some warnings in job log.

Error Message in the Application Inventory Job, which ends the Job partially (This trigger always a Ticket): [example.server.ch] A running instance was not found for database EXAMPLE. This error is raised because autostart is enabled in oratab. A ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

RMAN plugin required

We are changing our environment to separate failure domains across data center. To be safe but nearly synchronous our Oracle database will be (nearly) synchronized by Oracle dataguard based on Oracle ExaCC.To continue the backup solution with the ...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

No direct option for secondary copy to cloud and no immutable copy feature

Spectrum Protect Integrating with the cloud for a secondary copy streamlines backups, eliminating the need for an another on-premises backup server. This approach offers cost efficiency, scalability, remote accessibility, redundancy, automated man...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Add SP Server logging to SYSLOG for UNIX/AIX

Currently, logging to SYSLOG is only available on Linux. To properly integrate SP into SIEM/QRadar, it is essential to have logging to SYSLOG for UNIX/AIX, too.
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Introduce Data mobility - Ability to move data from 1 vSnap server to another

Introduce Data mobility i.e. the ability to move data from 1 vSnap server to another.This is so data can be easily managed and vSnap servers retired and added in an easier fashion
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration