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Storage Protect Family

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Enable a "read only" system administrator for monitoring purposes

With the introduction of multi factor authentication in Spectrum Protect, administrative access to the software is significantly increased. However, an administrator without MFA must be used for automated monitoring activities. And for the executi...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus ability to offload historical Data

We need the ability to offload historical data to ICOS.The customer had an environment backing up for approximately 12 months before ICOS was implemented and we started offloading.The customer wanted all its historical data offloaded to ICOS howev...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Migrate VM's to new SLA's without taking new full backups

Customers want the ability to migrate VM's to new SLA's without taking new full backups. This is due to when customers want to split VMs up already in existing SLAs currently this needs a full backup to be re-run and therefore more space needed in...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM CDM should be able to work with more than one Network Card to perform backup and restore operations

Customer has hosts and storage subsystems placed in distinct networks. We configured a second NIC in the CDM server but once this interface comes UP, all scheduled backup fails, the reason is that they can't find the target hosts, I wonder some ro...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 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 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

In SPP need the ability to backup local drives on clustered VMs that have non-unique UUIDs

The customer has a need to use SPP to backup Windows VMs that are clustered. Currently when they look at the drives under each cluster the C:\ drive only appears on one of the servers in the cluster. The reason for this is that each C:\ drive has ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 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 ...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow data-lock cloud containers to be reclaimed

I would like to have the feature "Reclaim Containers" available when using datalock stgpools. Looking at my SPOC console, I will have 263.3TB of data that could be reclaimed from my cloud storage pool. Since this is not supported because I'm using...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 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 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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