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SLA schedules are removed to early from ISPP

When the last VM or Database is removed from a SLA policy ISPP will also remove the complete schedule for this SLA.Unfortunately this also includes all post processes like replication or archiving, which means the backup data will not be copied to...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

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

Operation Center Client Deployment - not able to schedule client updates if a single server failed receiving update packages

In the OC in the client deployment section you can schedule the client updates, however this scheduling part is only "unlocked" if the pushing of client packages to all spoke servers has run error free for all servers.So the command "REFRESH PKG S...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Global Exclude List

We are after a Global Exclude list of VMs that we can use to exclude VMs across ALL SLA Policies in SPP
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Provide additional protection when using the decommission command against Oracle or DB2 nodes.

Spectrum Protect Oracle and DB2 client decommission can lead to immediate data expiration and data loss. Due to the copygroup settings required for Oracle and DB2, the risk of using the decommission node command can inadvertently lead to data loss...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

server support on windows server 2019

Windows server 2019 is widely used and users/customers expecting support for spectrum protect server and operation center on this platform
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Operation Center - Security Notification Enhancement

Hello Team, Looking for some enhancement for Operation center, Security Notification Feature
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Restore VM to the max. possible configuration in case of any issues detected instead to force restore only to minimal config

We have now experienced several situations where VM's were restored with only a minimal configuration because of problems (e.g. maximum number of available ports in port group was reached, unrecognized new parameters in VM config etc.). For furthe...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

TSM operation center reporting issue with DB size of TSM instances in GPFS cluster

TSM DB size was wrongly reported in operations center for instances configured in same GPFS cluster. all instances are reporting GPFS clustered file system size Tivoli Storage Manager Operations Center 7.1.4
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

Multiple transfer streams between pools for data from a single node

We use a TSM system where the nodes/clients push data first to disk, then the TSM server migrate the data from disk to tape.We have several use cases where nodes periodically push data faster than the ~350MB/s that our tape drives (TS1150) can han...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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