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Storage Protect Family

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IBM SPP to allow MS-SQL Restore to Standby State

Customer would like to have the ability to restore MS-SQL database to the Standby state.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

When converting/migrating to container pool, add option to uncompress/dedup/compress legacy-compressed data

When migrating/converting legacy storage pools to the new container-type storage pool, it should be possible to specify on the command line, that "legacy" data during migration/conversion should be uncompressed, dedupped (if not already dedupped) ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

PKIX Validation.

When replacing the IBM Spectrum Protect Instance Self-signed certificate, with a CA signed certificate, the client to server or server to server validation of the CA signed certificate expects that the OID in the certificate chain must be an exact...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Expand "SET FAILOVERHLADDRESS" to node granularity

On Server Version 7.1 a function "SET FAILOVERHLADDRESS " was introduced to allow the failover IP to be different then the IP used for replication, this is a step in the right direction. However on TSM Servers with multiple IP's with clients in di...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect - password strength

Spectrum Protect has no capability to enforce strong passwords for "local" IDs. Only the length of the password can be specified. The new TLS certificates do give some better security. But I would like to see SP enforce strong passwords, eg 14 ran...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

VM Restore Types - Change Naming

Change the VM restore naming types – They are confusing mostly because test creates an active clone and clone doesnt! In my opinion Test should be renamed Instant Access (can still create an active clone that you can move into production or cleanu...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Enable support for Tags and Folders in Resource Groups

Enable support for Tags and Folders in Resource Groups
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Proactive alerting

Proactive alerts setup to alert when CPU, memory, configuration catalog, recovery catalog and file catalog are reaching 75%+ to flag more resources will be required shortly.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

GENERATE BACKUPSET hang on huge amount of data

Based on PMR 54452,740,740, we would like to modify the DB2 schema/indicies, or else to able to generate backupset with huge amount of data stored under a single node.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Test Restore Periodically

Restore customer data Periodically without needing of system outage or stand by system.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration