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Storage Protect Family

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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...
over 7 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...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 4 Not under consideration

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

Need an option to "backup" or "export" custom SQL-reports in "Spectrum Protect Operations Centre"

Some customers have many custom sql reports in their OC, so we need an convenient option to export or backup those sql-reports either in one single file (like .xml) or export single reports to single files (and consequently are able to import them...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 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...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Configuration of the ISP client 8.1.9.0 in a clustered environment (AIX and Linux).

Configuration of the ISP client 8.1.9.0 in a clustered environment (AIX and Linux). As stated in TS003354444 it does not work though we follow the instructions in "https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_7.1.0/com.ibm.itsm.srv.doc/c_clu...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Plus: Enhance schedule daily, weekly,monthly and yearly

Spectrum Protect Plus: Enhance schedule daily, weekly,monthly and yearly Currently we need to create with multiple SLA for different schedule of daily, weekly, monthly.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add TS1160 support to V7 Storage Agent

Platin/PlatiniumCustomer VW has more than 200 physical HP/UX and SUN Solaris server, running several applications, including Oracle, some of them larger than 100 TB. All these server are using TSM TDP with LAN free backup. VW purchased the TS4500 ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 1 Not under consideration

File Indexing numbers

Need to add option to get current utilization of file indexing numbers as we have limit in SPP
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Ability to replicate all VSNAP backup data to a new VSNAP

Ability to Replicate all VSNAP backup data to a new VSNAP, not only new backups that happens after the replication is setup (as happen today).
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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