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Storage Protect Family

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Support for SLES 15 using Spectrum Protect DP for HANA

I need a statement of support for DP for ERP SAP HANA on SLES 15
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Plus GUI national language support

Request for SPP GUI in Japanese.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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 ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Server for SLES 15.X

No versions of Spectrum Protect are currently support SLES15
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

RHEL 8 server support

After Linux: Minimum Linux x86_64 server requirements https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.7/srv.install/r_srv_lnx_sysreq_inst_x-linux.htmlthere is RHEL support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 or later Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Summary Report

Need a dashboard style report showing key performance figures for management. Current reports are PDFs containing long lists of information. There is no equivalent of the ‘General Operations' report that is produced by Operations Center for Spectr...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Make the dashboard more focused on showing information and enabling actions at a per VM and application level

The product needs to be a lot more VM and application centric from a management perspective. What end users would like is backup information per VM and application in the dashboard, a list of VMs and applications showing when each VM and applicati...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

retset without retrule

The new feature retset requiers to define also an retrule with is basicly a scheduler. We use an external scheduler and don't need the retrule. It's also useless to define an retule for ontime retset. It should be possible to generate an retset wi...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release