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Storage Protect Family

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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

Run enduser file level restore with restricted privileges

Request to be able to run the end-user file level restore UI with restricted priviledges. Currently, per documentation a domain-admin UID is required to run the UI. It would be highly advisable to run the UI with the minimum privileges required fo...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Prevent Maintenance Tasks from reporting a warning when behaving as expected.

SPP can display events in the maintenance task, such as snapshots locked because of dependencies, as a warning in the summary dashboard. These however are expected behaviour with no action required. Displaying such events as a warning can be misle...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management to leverage existing storage replication relationships

IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management for SAP/HANA environment
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Allow local protect storagepool for cloud Container

Because of compliance guidelines, many users need to implement a “media brake” at their backup strategy. But the, very cost effective, Cloud Container Storage lacks the ability to protect the Storage pool to a tape pool.As the “protect stgpool typ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Trigger email/report when sla run contains failed vms

If a job that has run contains failed vms, sytem should send out email/report to pre-defined address to report this incident.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Update Cloudstoragepool to make it immutable.

Hello Currently S3 immutable and immutable COS is supported but its only with define stgpool but its not supported do update current stgpool to make it immutable. Since S3 allow changes now, can we please have an update stgpool with enabledatalock?
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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

Application Inventory Job Change Report/Alert

An Oracle database that exists on the database server is no longer being found or displayed in SPP. This is not considered a failure, so no reporting is provided. Customer needs an alert or report to see the changes to the inventory job. The parti...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Report visualizer inside Operations Center

The only way to visualize a report output is to send the report by email using the "Send" option. This is not practical when creating/modifying a report and you need to see the result quickly in order to make changes/corrections to the SQL. It wou...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

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