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Storage Protect Family

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Add TDP for Oracle to Retention Sets type of data that can be included

Currently, retention sets allow TDP for SQL, B/A Client, TDP for Mail, DP for VE (both VMware and Hyper-V) but only TDP for DB - Oracle is NOT supported and this is reallly needed for long term retention - there's a class of backups that is comple...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Disable ransomware alert for specific nodes

Ransomware detection is always on, and cannot be disabled. Every login has a pink banner because 5 nodes are never near their long-term average for size and dedupe ratio.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Plus File level Restores

Spectrum Protect Plus Restoration and cataloging not very user friendly.It would be nice if you can select and tick the folders and files you want restored. similar to Spectrum Protect (TSM) & Backup Exec and other backup software.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP physical server Filesystem backup support problem

Need a lot of improvement backing File System backups
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

implement a call like dsmPing() to keep sessions alive

Sessions on the Spectrum Protect server gets terminiated due to inactivity timeout, even though there are still a running backup on the client. The backup process that are scanning for changed blocks can sometimes take long time.For example DB2 in...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

SCDM - Re-use SSH sessions for IBM SVC Storage

Spectrum Copy Data Management creates new SSH sessions when running SVC CLI commands. Each CLI commands requires opening an SSH session and once the CLI command completes, closing the SSH session. Instead of opening a new SSH session for every CLI...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Pct Util calculation needs to either show more decimal places, or otherwise somehow scale based on larger possible volume sizes

Regarding case TS012335757, due to the large size of the volumes, Pct Util was showing 0.0, but there was actually data stored there. This led to confusion over why the volumes were not returning to scratch. As an example, 2.5GB on a 1TB tape show...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

dont perform a FULL backup of all vmdks if only one vmdk is resized

Resizing of the VMware VM disk will trigger a reset of the CBT data of that specific disk. This causes a FULL backup of the entire VM. Not only the resized disk will be backed up fully, but all other disks too.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Storage Agent write to cloud container

Would be very useful to allow a storage agent to write directly to an on-prem or off-site cloud bucket. In larger environment this would help spread the load and improve backup performance. Then allow the Storage agent to read from on-prem S3 and ...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SPP - Option for Non-memory Snapshot

By default SPP always takes a memory snapshot.Although SPP has the option to disable VSS (Quiesced Snapshot), it doesn not have the option to disable a memory snapshot.We NEED the option to disable memory snapshot for some VMs which cannot be snap...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

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