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Storage Protect Family

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parallel SAP HANA Log Backup of HDBBackint to two destinations

customer wants to change the way HDBackint works with two destinations.'REDOLOG_COPIES 2' is slower than'REDOLOG_COPIES 1', because of the way how the logs are being processedby hdbbackint:.hdbbackint uses one thread for reading a data buffer from...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

different failoverhladdresses for nodes

there is only the option to set failoverhladdress globally. but if there are tsmnodes coming through many different interfaces, there is no way to set this for each interface or at least node-specific
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Central gui for agents

New GUI that you can install on a machine and then use to add all your backup agents, and where you can centrally manage backup/options/restore, and maybe even read log files.
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

New client/API interface

Make a new client interface for data communication on SP-server. Which can support new functionality and to which ALL new clients will use. Clients can then have: * Auto upgrade clients, option in server and node* Better agent, functionality* And ...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Enable option to manually add ESXi host for restore onto

Restore function request – Recover to ESXi host - should option to manually add rather than just poll inventorised ESXi hosts
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable the setting of a VM name on clone and production restores

Enable the ability to set a VM name on clone and production restores and on move into production and clone operations for active clones (test restores)
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

VM details in Dashboard

Show list of VMs protected and SLA protected under and VMs not protected as a list in the Dashboard. Customers want to know which VMs have successfully backed up overnight and which have failed. The Dashboard does a good job of showing this at an ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SQL log backup status

The status of the SQL log backup is found only in the job log. We would like the log backups to be more visible and easy to check for success or failure. The Dashboard or on the section named Application - SQL - Backup would be helpful.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

spectrum Protect Plus reports is missing

Requests to add to the report's data of who performed the recovery.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Tiering rules need more flexibility for Filesystem and/or type of data (Backup/Archive)

I would like to see the tiering rules to be able to be a bit more flexible. I have a node that has Backup and Archive data.Backup data is more often needed quickly so a backup location in ContainerPools is valid.The Archive data is kept 10 years a...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

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