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Storage Protect Family

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Add completed timestamp on failed administrative events

Add "completed" timestamp to administrative events if the administrative schedule fails.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Support for HCL Domino Server 14

HCL Domino Server 14 has been available for some time now. The Storage Protect Agent for Mail/Domino does not yet support this version. Since we and various other customers are due to update their HCL Domino servers to version 14, I would like to ...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Planned for future release

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus - Oracle DB support on Windows

Small customers use Windows platform for Oracle DB's and current support is only for Oracle DB running on Linux. SPP in not suitable for them and cases are lost. Veeam has such support.
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Backing up data to Replication Spectrum protect server when Production TSM server id down for many days.

When the production Spectrum Protect server is down or having Disaster scenario, SP admins should go through tiresome steps to backup the data to replication SP Server. For each client, we will need to below steps for customers having 4000+ client...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Method for monitoring/alerting on performance of cache to S3 data movement

There is currently no method to monitor the migration of local cache storage to S3 object storage. There is therefore no easy way to know if data are being moved and if they are moving sufficiently quickly to be completed before the next backup. I...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Future consideration

Separate expiration of decommissioned nodes

When having many decommissioned nodes the expire inventory process tend to run for a very long time (more then 24 hrs). This upset the normal housholding tasks in administrative schedules. Suggest expiration of decommissioned nodes are run in a se...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

All server-side command to control which SP server a client connects to as primary

Allow Spectrum Protect administrator to issue a command that will alert a node it should connect to a different SP server as a primary.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future 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...
over 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
over 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.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration