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    Include database instance name in SPP report

    On Microsoft SQL servers we have multiple databases running on multiple instances. It would be helpful in the SPP database report to indicate which instance on an MSSQL server the backup was for.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

    fix column widths in dsmadmc interactive screen output

    When using dsmadmc for SP management, the screen output quality looks often still like from previous century. Especcially number columns are often too narrow even when there is plenty of console width still available. This leads to wrapped numbers...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

    Support more than 32 active GM Sessions

    Increase the maximum supported active GM sessions in DS8880 from current hardware limitation of 32 active sessions to at least 64 active sessions . For example the IBM SVC support up to 256 - https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S101...
    about 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Oracle log truncate on Spectrum Protect Plus

    Need for SPP to delete Oracle/dBase log with a user defined frequency.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Backup of Microsoft Teams Chat transcripts in Protect Plus Office365

    Working with a customer who is moving to Office 365 and needs a product to provide backups. As a Spectrum Protect customer today they looked at Protect Plus for Office 365, but the IBM solution lacks the capability to backup the Microsoft Teams "C...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Add Auto deploy option in client option sets

    The idea is to manage AUTODEPLOY YES/NO/NO REBOOT on clien option set level.
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

    Support for SQL Express

    Today SQL Express is not supported. But there is no reason for why. It has all the functionality as the FULL sql, except limits on CPU and RAM. Backups works fine etc. The only part that will not work today is the mmc gui that wont complete its co...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

    network access controlm for mmsysmon REST API

    Currently mmsysmon REST API allows all inbound connections. Our cybersecurity penetration team has successfully sent network packets that caused REST API to malfunction, leaving hundreds of connections in CLOSE_WAIT state. In this scenario CherryP...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Have an API to communicate with Storage Insights

    We want to integrate Storage Insights alerts into our monitoring tool. Should be able to communicate with Storage Insights through an API to receive alerts etc. and have them processed by our monitoring tool.
    about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Not under consideration

    SPP original storage policy during restore instead of default policy

    If a customer uses multiple storage policies and a restore is preformed, SPP assigns the default storage policy by default. The customer has to select the original storage policy manually, which can be easily forgotten during a restore.It would be...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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