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Storage Protect Family

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Releasing space in DB

There is a manual method to Releasing space in DB2 9.7 table spaces. (Online Reorg)Run analyze_DB2_formulas.pl data.And run db2 alter tablespace for tables that can free desirable space (from output of above perl script).This step could be embedde...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Server Cross-replication with Client Acceptors to both on all clients

Site fail-over/fail-back of the "restore" function (read from ISP server(s)) is already provided in the ISP server product. Site fail-over/fail-back of the "backup" function (write to ISP server) is not. If site A goes down, backups must be suspen...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Support for vCenter 6.7 U1

Support for vCenter 6.7 U1
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

SCDM support for KVM

Many customers are using KVM hypervisor in their Oracle environments because of Oracle licensing rules. Thus, having SCDM supporting KVM virtualized servers will open new opportunities.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Backup vCLS VMs

Exclude vCLS VMs from VM backups using TDP for VMware. Is not possible exclude VMs from backup using TAG, when VM is backed up using Schedule-Tag option.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Lucene DB maintenance option

I require an option within Spectrum Protect Plus that that will given me the ability to either reset the Lucene db (like drop the entire DB) or remove file indexing entries older than x days) This would give me the flexibilty to better control wha...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

ADHOC Backend TB License Measurement (audit license with command instead of OC)

- The Backend TB Licenseing will be measured by SUR Occupancy and SUR Retention Occupancy every 7 days after startup of Spectrum protect Server from OC and shown in report as backend license value.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Restore SQL to the same SQL Server with another name

Customer wants to restore a DB to the same SQL system with a new name. This is only possible when defining a different data path. The restore works fine but the name of the data- and logfile will be the same as the original files. example: We try ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Ability to modify retention of individual VMs along with their historical data

Customer states that they are unable to extend/change the retention period for a VM along with the historical backup data if requested by groups within their environment without changing the setting for the entire SLA. This is not viable as it res...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Operation Center Anomaly Reporting Improvement

Right the anomaly reporting of OC is very basic and not very usefull. There is no good way to export it and create a daily list of client nodes with anomalies and what type of anomalies are those. We would like to be able: Generate a daily spreads...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

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