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SPP - Enable 'disable log capability' to SQL Ad Hoc Backup

In an SQL Always-On (clustered) DB restore, we need the ability to disable log backups using the SQL Ad-Hoc backup function.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

More flexibility in assigning rights to administrators

In large/complex environments with multiple people having administrative access to the Spectrum Protect server, it is desirable to be able to have better granularity on the rights assigned to each person/login or group. This is in order to be able...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Customer needs more detail on client activity to be able to manage backups effectively

A customer needs more information to be able to effectively manage client backups. If a client experiences an exception, it is important to be able to look at its historical success and failure and workload. Specifically, in the details section fo...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Add information to Operations Center to make client management better.

A customer needs more information in the operations center to be able to effectively manage client backups, particularly exceptions in the data protection services. For example, the current columns that can be selected include the at-risk status a...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

SP for VE: Remove or increase 8TB size VMware virtual machine disks limit

To be able to protect large VMware vmdk files using Spectrum Protect fot Virtual Environments, can the limit on vmmaxvirtualdisks option be increased or removed?
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Vmware Backup Failure ANR messages do not display the actual hostname and of the datamover on all platforms.

Vmware Backup Failure ANR messages do not display the actual hostname and of the datamover on all platforms. ANE4174E Full VM backup of VMware Virtual Machine 'vmname' failed with RC=rc mode=full_or_incr, target node name='target_node_name', data ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

File Recovery Options in SPP

Client expects more innovative and easy to use features when it comes to file recovery in SPP. Customer expect modern software to be as easy to use as an iPhone! Non Indexed VM:It should be possible to recover files from a non-indexed VM. Function...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Make the time interval for "ANR3654W Inventory file expiration processing did not run in the previous 24 hours" configurable

The message ANR3654W is shown even if an expire inventory schedule was executed every day at 4pm, because the detailed time frame including seconds is checked for the message. The request is either check not on detailed second (maybe a minute or 5...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management missing RHEL 8 support

Currently Spectrum Copy Data Management 2.2.13 does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Application archive logs included in copy operations

SPP can protect both databases and its archive logs. Those backups are stored on a vSnap, so the customer can restore both of them if they need. If the customer wants to run a copy operation of those backups to a Cloud Object Storage, for example,...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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