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Storage Protect Family

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SPP - Support for Dataguard

We would like to use SPP to backup our Oracle Databases. Most of the areas at the city will be moving to Dataguard later this year. If this is not supported then we cannot use SPP for this.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Ransomware Information

Information about Client anomaly is reported into the table ACTLOG in Column "MESSAGE" with VARCHAR (3001) - ANR3692W A client backup anomaly... This information is nice but not practical to get selected/grouped information from it. I think all ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 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.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Support multiple Operation Centers

We would like to use multiple OC´s to support remote monitoring in parallell with local OC. This is not possible today, but needed for our remote monitoring process. Maybe the local OC could feed some "cloud"-service (like CMC for HMC and power sy...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

IBM Storage Snapshots support for Virtualize, Flash Systems and Storwize in SPP

SPP should be able to benefit from IBM Storage Snapshots (Flash Copy) during backup by using them to minimize the impact of the backup on the system to be backed up and, if necessary, to accelerate the backup process.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family 3 Planned for future release

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...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Increase vmmaxvirtualdisks limit

Increase the maximum supported disk size (Vmmaxvirtualdisks option) to current available limit. In version 8.1.10 the maximum is 8TB but the maximum vmdk size in cSphere 6.7 is 64TB.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

In clustered (HA) environments, Spectrum Protect should support installing interim fixes without downtime

We are using Spectrum Product for Data Retention in a document centric application step, that serves access to contract statements over the web in an always on environment. Maintenance (major version or scheduled FP upgrade) is expected to be deli...
over 1 year 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 ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Keep supporting TSM API (backup to TSM via BRMS on IBM i)

Please do not discontinue this support.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

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