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Storage Protect Family

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Report FE capacity for DB2 databases in OC

We want to see the "Capacity Used" values for DB2 databases in the "License Estimation" of the Spectrum Protect Operation Center.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

SPP PLUS: FUNCTION TO OPEN/BROWSE ANY .EDB FILE AND EXTRAC ITS CONTENT INTO PST FILES WITHOUT EXCHANGE/API MMC(GUI)

Develop a function for SPP PLUS software to read raw Exchange .EDB files without interaction with Exchange/API and browse the database content to extract all the mailboxes into PST files simultaneously.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Define SQL Server backup replica node in SPP for SQL Availability Group

SPP uses the SQL Server backup preferences to choose the replica SQL Server node where the backup will be made in an Avalilabity Group. However, we would like to have the possibility to define the node where the backup will take place in the SPP i...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for Extended ACL Propagation on Spectrum Protect BA Client Restore to Isilon NAS via Windows Proxy.

The customer opened a tickets to report that when he would restore files locally on a Windows host / proxy, it would restore the extended ACL proxy using the BA Client but when he does the same, using the same Windows Proxy but to restore the data...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

S3 Object Agent: Allow non ISPP application the use of "coldpool"

In the actual release of Spectrum Protect (8.1.12) the use of the "coldpool" in a Object Domain of Spectrum Protect is limited to the archive feature of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.External S3 clients are can only use a directory container pool as a...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Support adding space by extending existing luns to vSnap server

vSnap server should be able to have it storage luns extended. Typically, we would make 4 luns of 4 Tb each available to a vSnap server. When it needs to be extended, we just increase the existing luns by 1 or 2 Tb each.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

enhance command line output

The text screen output from commands entered in dsmadmc should be enhanced. Many columns are too small and cause wrapping already for relatively short common values, making it hard to read. On the other hand, much space is wasted by separating col...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

allow SPP to intelligent selection for VADP transport mode

testing has shown that if using a virtual VADP proxy, the HotAdd transport is good for large amounts of data transfer, but NBD is better for smaller data transfers since there is a small amount of time spent establishing HotAdd. It would be good t...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Allow copy storage rules to select only active data AND to allow selection of from-date and to-date for copy to tape in fully hydrated tape copies.

This is useful because starting from scratch and trying to copy multiple inactive as well as the active copy of extremely large data backups (for example Epic databases) to tape for hydrated copies takes an extremely long time. The library is unav...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Include database instance name in SPP report

On Microsoft SQL servers we have multiple databases running on multiple instances. It would be helpful in the SPP database report to indicate which instance on an MSSQL server the backup was for.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

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