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Storage Protect Family

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SPP GUI integrated in SP OC

if SPP Vsnap will have a direct integration with SP, GUIs should also be integrated. This integration could be show as only one product with different features.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future 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
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

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 ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

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,...
about 3 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

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

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

Login with certificates during file indexing on Linux

Case number: TS000844605 Customer REQUIRES use of certificates when logging into the Linux environment, currently SPP does not support login with certificates during indexing of files.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect - stgrule subrule, allow groups to be specified and not just clients

stgrule subrule - allow groups and/or wildcards to be used for subrules. For example, at the moment I have 500 clients, some I want to tierbystate and some tierbyage. To keep my setup simple, I have one staging pool which tiers to one cloud pool. ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration