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File Level Restore Enhancements

Requests from customer to improve the File Level Restore recovery capability in SPP and add the following: 1) Add an include list as well as an exclude list under VM options > select options 2) Collect data for and add a date modified field so ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Support less than 1 day of Oracle archlogs to be kept on system

ISPP leaves a archive logs on an Oracle system for a certain amount of time, which is needed for recovery, altough Logs are also stored in ISPP on the vSnap share.Unfortunately this amount of time is set in days, so the least time is one day, whic...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container Backup Support in the Red Hat OpenShift environment running on POWER platform

Customer is creating new AI workloads on OpenShift running on IBM POWER servers. Spectrum Protect Plus v10.1.7 supports Linux x86_64, but not Linux on POWER.OpenShift is designed to enable portability to multiple platforms, but Spectrum Protect Pl...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

We need application consistent Safeguarded Copy protect for SAP R/3

We have multiple customers that are still using SAP R/3 for a while before switching to SAP HANA. Since ERP is part of their minimum viable company, we need a way to safeguard this application.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Under review

Migration of Backup-Jobs between SPP MasterServers

Export/Import of specific SLA's, Nodes, Backups incl. all necessary data from SPP Server1 to Server2 (e.g. new install SPP or existing installations) on node level on SLA level on backup job (SnapShot) level
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUI configuration mode checkbox should be UNCHECKED by default.

The Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUI configuration mode checkbox should remain unchecked as a default setting for normal use.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

SP Plus - Start Copy job/replication job when Main policy is complete

Possibility to define in a SLA that a "Additional Copy" or "Replication" Should only begin when the "Primary" job is no longer running.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Data Retention should be able to delete Copy Storage Pool Volumes

In Spectrum Protect Data Retention it is not possible to delete any data manually, which is the key functionality of the product.In case of duplicating the data stored (i.e. on tape) we use Copy Storage Pools. To allow an exchange of the underlyin...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

ISPP - reduce required free space in VG for DB2 backup

Currently when protecting db2 with ISPP you need to have 20% free space in the VG containing the DB2 database to accommodate the LV snapshots taken during ISPP DB2 backup. This additional storage requirement increases backup costs which can add up...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Drive reporting for SI

IBM sometimes releases FLASHes for drive firmware issues. Although the Advisor should catch this, there isn't a simple way to generate reports for all drives known to SI. The only method for doing this appears to be to create a drive report for ea...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

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