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Storage Protect Family

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CDM: Allow parallel mounts/restores to proxy/remote host (Windows)

CDM should allow and handle right mounting multiple snapshots of same type/application to another host (mount proxy/remote host) at the same time (Windows). Intention is to offload multiple MSSQL Server snapshots in parallel. It seems that OS/SCSI...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Backup of VMware Custom Atributes

Backup of VMware Custom Atributes and values.Service request number: 10814,999,846
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Possibility to create a synthetic backup full in SPP with OSSM and vSnap at any time

For SLA reasons (law or company regulations) it is necessary that my BASE backup is NEVER older than 30 days!
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

temp. autologout customization in the SPP GUI

When pulling support logs in larger environments, the default autologout in the spp gui of currently 30min is exceeded. however, the time to create the log collection is much longer than 30min. this prevents the forwarding to support cases. a way ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

success ful backup in database

So according to this case the filespace table in database, column "last_successful_backup" for Exchange TDP is only updated if replication is configured. If replication is not running, this value is not updated as it should.
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

select to get damaged containers in OC reports

The command QUERY DAMAGED <STGPOOLNAME> type=container is nice in order to see any damaged containers, however in Operations Center Reporting it is not possible to do the same command and there is no equivalent select statement available as ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 3 Future consideration

Create, modify & remove administative schedules

Create, modify & remove administative schedules from the Operation Center.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Add DB2 support for Spectrum CDM

Add support for DB2 in addition to Intercache, Oracle, SQL and HANA databases in the Spectrum CDM product please
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Support of HyperV VM tags to select resources to backup

Ability to select the resources to backup based on VM tags in a HyperV environment (same functionality as for VMware)
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP CONTROL BACKUP BY DATASTORE THRESHOLD

In Spectrum Protect for VE, one can configure "VMDATASTORETHRESHOLD" in order to control if Snapshots/Backups will be processed in the Datastore level. e.g: VMDATASTORETHRESHOLD 90 means that the Hypervisor will not process any snapshot in a datas...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release