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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Windows Server 2019 Core

Exchange 2019 is supported on Windows Server 2019 Server Core. We need support for backup/restore on this platform Microsoft is pushing Windows Server 2019 Server Core as the OS of choice for Exchange 2019. On https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/e...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Delivered

Support for Ontap 9.5 with BA Client

There is no documentation for support of BA client backups of Ontap 9.5 on NetApp appliances. The highest mentioned is Ontap 9.3 supported bu 8.1.4. I have a customer that is about to migrate to a new data center and as part of this move replace t...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

Operation to use 443 https instead of specific port 11090 default

A Danish customer is asking for the option to use the https 443 standard SSL TCPport and use that instead of the need to use a specific port in the URL like 11090.https://Ipaddress:11090/ocIt should be possible to access the OC UI without the need...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Delivered

Spectrum Protect Node Replication - option to block DELETE BACKUP/ARCHIVE from replicating to target server

Add possibility to supress replicating "delete backup"/"delete archive" commands from node replication, possibly depending on setting "DISSIMILARPOLICIES" or "backdelete/archdelete=no for node on target server (possibly new parameter not to confus...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Delivered

Option to perform manual full backup of VMs

We need an option to override the incremental forever and force a (new) full backup of VMs.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Server and Storage agent support for SLES 12 Power (LE)

Currently the only officially supported Protect Server and Storage Agent on Power Linux Little Endian is RedHat. What about the customers with SLES 12 LE ?

Ability to schedule maintenance policy

Allow user to modify the time at which the maintenance policy will be started. An acceptable workaround would be to change the start time via a REST API call.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Schedule Hypervisor Inventory Job

Schedule Hypervisor Inventory Job
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Ability to Schedule report

Ability to define scheduling of Reports in SPP 10.1.2
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

CANCEL PROTECT or DURATION on PROTECT STGPOOL

CANCEL PROTECT and/or a DURATION option for PROTECT STGPOOL is needed.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered