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Change the IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Microsoft SQL Server autoselect to select backups prior to the backup endtime, instead of the backups prior to the backup starttime

The LSN (Log Sequence Number) checkpoint is created when an SQL backup concludes. This can lead to the autoselect function in IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Microsoft SQL Server, selecting a log backup between the Difffuls or Full backups start...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

Support for VMware vCloud Director

When does IBM expect that Spectrum Protect Plus have support for VMware vCloud Director.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add VM Backup Success Rate to GUI

The current "Success Rate" percentage shown in the GUI is misleading.It shows the success rate of jobs. Jobs include backup, restore, replication, inventory and maintenance jobs.If 1 job (with 5 VMs) fails and 1 job (with 500 VMs) succeeds, the su...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SP SERVER/OP CENTER: FUNCTION TO CONTROL/HANDLE CLIENT FILE BACKUP CONFIGURATION DIRECTLY FROM SERVER

- Develop function to integrate Operations Center with SP Server with the ability to configure and handle the client host backup remotely.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Test ISPP with Linux 8.5

For ISPP server we have currently Linux version of 7.X and Linux team is planning to upgrade to RedHat Linux version 8.5 and they cant go for 8.4 as it has security vulnerability Please advice correct version of ISPP which is compatible with for L...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

SP PLUS support for SHAREPOINT witH SQL

Customer would like to have an application support for SHAREPOINT environemnt, backing up the VM with SP PLUS.SHAREPOINT is used with SQL 2017 database.Not yet with O365.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

MS-SQL Support for Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments V8.1 and Spectrum Protect for Databases V8.1

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments V8.1 and Spectrum Protect for Databases V8.1 should support MS-SQL 2012.Customer has a large MS-SQL 2012 installation base running on VMware. Both products do not support a official supported version of MS...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Backup NAS Incremental

We have a large backup NAS volume for daily backup.And this volumetry of data stored and transferred daily are enormous.Backups are Differential, we need a way to perform an incremental backup.We also need a solution to backup and restore at the s...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 4 Not under consideration

Dedup enabled on replication

The request is for deduplication being enabled when replicating between different vsnap repository
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

VM job reports

Spectrum Protect Plus reports don't meet our requirements.We can see if backups completed without any fails in the last 24 hour. Also VM SLA report can show us if VMs are in compliance. But it's not enough.There must be a report which shows if all...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration