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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

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Reporting using VM Tagging

Customer would like to expand the SPP reporting by using VMware Tagging.
over 6 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

Error handling for failed node replication - ANR1893E and ANR3824W

Since ISP 8.1.14 we always see this error messages in the log - and monitoring system - for node replication, because some files are skipped. The reason for the skipped files is, that database log backups always occur during the replication. This ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SnapDiff API - NetAPP un-deprecated snapdiff ZAPIs in both 9.10.1 and 9.11.1 P-patch releases

Let me also give you some background information on SnapDiff APIs. Originally SnapDiff v1/v2 ZAPIs were deprecated in ONTAP 9.10.1 and 9.11.1 but were un-deprecated in both 9.10.1 and 9.11.1 P-patch releases. As long as you are on the most recent ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 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)
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SQL Recovery Model change is not properly handled

ISPP doesn't handle changes of the SQL recovery model from "full" to "simple" as it would be suitable for a enterprise product.When a DB with Log Backup enabled is changed to simple recovery model, there will be warnings that the log backup is fai...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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

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