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SCDM - CDM/Sentinel - Post snapshot script run before Sentinel scan starts

Clients using Sentinel Scan engine needs a way to kickoff a Post Snap script before the Scan Engine gets started for Sentinel. This will allow clients the ability to get some work done before a long scan run, such at 15-20 hours.
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Node lock

Currently node is locked on first incorrect password. Problem is if the user wants a new password and we reset the node password on the server and inform user of the password, the user need to start gui/cli to enter new password. But the first thi...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

customize commandapproval commands

SP 'set commandapproval' doesn't allow to customize the predefined list of commands. Security needs are different from customer to customer.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

Need web client support in IBM Spectrum Protect V8.1.2 or later server.

Web client is extensively used in our environment ( TSM 8.1.1). To fix bugs that are impacting user jobs, TSM will be upgraded to V8.1.3 in the near future.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 9 Not under consideration

TDP SQL GUI more efficient for search restore point in allwaysOn cluster

Configuration: AlwaysOn DB configured on TDP for database SQL with 11 instances (Active/Inactive) with more than 70 SQL databases with MMC. Problem: When selectively restoring inactive data for a particular database, it takes a long time, up to 45...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

In SPP need the ability to backup local drives on clustered VMs that have non-unique UUIDs

The customer has a need to use SPP to backup Windows VMs that are clustered. Currently when they look at the drives under each cluster the C:\ drive only appears on one of the servers in the cluster. The reason for this is that each C:\ drive has ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SnapDiff v3 with ONTAP 9.13 and newer

It's great that Snapdiff V3 is now available with client version 8.1.23, but support is only available for ONTAP 9.12 and older versions. NetApp told us there is no reason for this. Could you please add support for ONTAP 9.13 and newer? IBM Suppor...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

SPP - Support Incremental Backup of Exchange DBs on ReFS

Customer has recently replaced Commvault with IBM SPP. Only Full Exchange backups are working as the customer is using ReFS.Also, since SPP is using VSS of the Exchange Server, backup of the 2nd Exchange DB cannot be started unless the backup of f...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Easy change certificate on S3 storage agent

Today the S3 Agent certifikate is catched from the default certifikation on sp server at the the installation of s3 agent. It's not possible to add a new certifikate to the s3 agent certificate store. To change the certificate you must deinstall t...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SPP - Datastore Utilisation Check

Please can SPP have a setting to check the utilisation % of a datastore prior to backing up to ensure that the snapshot being taken does not risk the datastore running out of space.This can then be checked by SPP prior to each VM being backed up, ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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