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Storage Protect Family

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Select datastore per VMDK during restore

When performing a restore it should be possible to select destination datastore for each VMDK-file.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Configure Eligible for log backup for SQL-database model to yes

I was told that the deployment of the SQL databases is done using the model-database. While every database will be implemented in roll-forward mode also the model database is configured to roll-forward.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus: Improvement suggestion for the Restore-OpenShift function "Restore to alternate cluster"

System: IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Server Spectrum Protect Plus is used to secure the various OpenShift clusters. In the event of a disaster recovery, it is a common scenario that the saved status of the defective cluster has to be transferred to a...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect for Databases SQL in Linux

We need us to implement Backup/Restore Spectrum Protect for Databases SQL in Linux Servers
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect - Retention Lock for retention sets

System: Spectrum Protect Server - all platformsActor: User needing new function Description: Request to develop a new feature which can lock a retention set from being deleted prior to its set expiry day. The feature can be termed as "Retention Lo...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

SPP connection to ILMT

In our environment we collect all necessary licenses with ILMT for IBM spectrum protect. In SPP 10.1. according the documentation license requirements could be captured with ILMT (Chapter 19. Licensing).But with clarification on ILMT-side (TS00381...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Operation Center - Logs and alerts for attempted or executed Restricted commands, new admin creation and change of password

System: Operation Center - all platformsActor: User needing new feature Description: List of potential destructive/restricted commands attempted and executed in last 24 hrs in alert section. Also, a mechanism to send email alerts each time restric...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Remove null node name used for directory container storage pools from occupancy table

For directory container stgpools the Occupancy table contains an entry with a null nodename. This entry holds about half of the total files and reporting MB of that stgpool. Actually the real size of the stgpool is the total reporting MB minus the...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

maxruntime parameter does not honor admin schedules with wait=yes

The maxruntime parameter could not be used for administrative schedules where processes with wait=yes are started. APAR IT21651 documents the behavior.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

SPP M365 Backup via Proxy

Several clients are enforcing the usage of a client provided HTTP/HTTPS proxy server to grant systems access to the Internet. In such case the IP network traffic is not routed through the default gateway. That is the reason why a client proxy need...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration