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Storage Protect Family

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Allow more flexible retention polices

Currently the SLA Policies only allow retnetion period in days. The customer would like to set retention period in weeks, months, years or indefinitely.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Delivered

Add multiple recipients to receive mail from SPP

When adding SMTP information to SPP can we add multiple recipients to receive emails?
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Backup of an Individual VM in an SLA Policy

Customer requires the ability to backup an individual VM in an SLA.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Delivered

Remove SP server startup dependency on availability of LDAP URL and implement recurring probing of LDAP access

Server does not restart when unable to inialize LDAP directory service. Moreover it seems that no recurring probing of LDAP access is currently factored into the SP server code, therefor no alerting will take place in case of loss/failed LDAP conn...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Data Protection for VMware Support for vSphere 6.7

The latest version of Data Protection for VMWare, v8.1.4, supports vSphere 6.5 and 6.5 update and patch levels. VSphere 6.7 is out, when will this be supported?

export to tape from directory-container storage pools.

I would like to see an export function that enables me to export to tape from directory-container storage pools. Export to tape is only possible from a sequential pool now days, but I would like to do it from container storage.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Delivered

Snapdiff backup support for SP 8.1.4.1 Windows client and OnTap 9.3P2

We currently use Spectrum Protect 8.1.2 client to do SnapDiff backup of OnTap 8.3.2P7 file shares. We would like to be able to do the same using Spectrum Protect 8.1.4.x doing SnapDiff backups of OnTap 9.3P2 file shares. This functionality is crit...

Spectrum Protect server v8.1.x with SLES v12 on Power LE

Spectrum Protect v8.1.x server:Customer is building a complete SAP HANA on SLES v12 running on POWER LE. Spectrum Protect for HANA is supported on SLES v12 on POWER LE.In order to be consistent and ease of use, customer would like to run Spectrum ...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

256 bit encryption for IBM Spectrum Protect for Lotus Domino

The API for TSM for DOMINO does not support 256 bit encryption, the industry standard. We need to have 256 bit encryption to satisfy a requirement by our internal business partners.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Delivered

FlashCopyManager on WS2016 CORE

As discussed with IBM support through PMR 87628,122,000, the FlashCopyManager tool fails to open on Windows Server 2016 Core. The error is due to mmc.exe no longer existing on Windows Server 2016. We want to request a new version of FlashCopyManag...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Delivered