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Storage Protect Family

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Spectrum Protect Plus - Support of Oracle Database on Windows Server

Ability to backup Oracle databases (11gR2+) running on Windows servers.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow a global exclude for a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job

Allow globally to exclude a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job, like the function to exclude complete VMs via the Policy Options or by using a specific VM tag.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Use proxy server for accessing IBM updates

To enhance security, and keep access to internet to a minimum, a proxy server should be used to obtain fixes and updates. This will allow for automatic updates for systems that are more locked down than usual.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Needs more information

SP support for encryption of DB backup

SP support as of SP 8.1.10 encryption of DB backups when backing up the DB to Cloud. The encrypted DB backup is protected by a password. Similar functionality should be available when backing up the SP database to other device types including sequ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Our customer's shell script was failed by "GSKKM_ERR_VALIDATION_KEY_VALIDITY_PERIOD"

Our customer's shell script was failed by "GSKKM_ERR_VALIDATION_KEY_VALIDITY_PERIOD".We understand we can intentionally avoid this by recreating the certificate manually,but it will cause the operational load to occur.Our customer want us to make ...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Functionality already exists

i5/OS (AS/400) Client API Service extension

Official announcement has been made in Developerworks Wiki that TSM 6.2 API for i5/OS will go out if support the 30th of April 2015.(see https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/IBM%20Backup,%20Recovery%20and%20Media%...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Adding additional Global Preferences for Default Restore Job

Since Version 10.1.5, when doing a restore, you can choose between "default setup" and "advanced setup". For the user doing a restore, the default setup should automatically use the most common values. In our customers environment, this would for ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Ability to configure alert summary email frequency

IBM Spectrum Protect offers the ability to enable sending an alert summary email up to three admin ids. The option (set alertsummarytoadmins) is not configurable. If you specify an adminid a summary email will be send every hour. Its not possible ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

export/import backupset volhist and ToC pool

If replication is used to migrate data from one SP server to another SP server, information about backupsets (and exports) in volhist is not sent over to the new server.make export server able to export server filedata=backupsetand export server f...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 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
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration