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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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    Spectrum Protect Plus support for MS SQL filestream mode

    Bosch is requesting Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) support for Microsoft (MS) SQL filestream mode. SPP should support full and incremental backups and restores of MS SQL databases running in filestream mode.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    SPP GUI Language Option

    Starting from SPP Version 10.1.4 the GUI detects the browser language to automatically choose the language for the Web GUI (for example to german). We need a way to configure the language for the Web GUI for the logged in user. This is because som...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    postgreSQL Support

    PostgreSQL is a database very common in customers. Currently, many clients are using this database to replace Oracle databases. We see this requirement in RFIs.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus direct archive to on-prem COS

    Archive in an SPP SLA policy is only available to cloud services (ICOS, AWS, etc). I am requesting that the archive function in SPP allow for S3 connectivity to on-prem COS. I have a similar request in ID#151074.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

    Provide a CLI (OS) command spp_status on the SPP Server to have a quick view if all required processes are up and running

    Similar to the CLI (OS) command vsnap_status on the vSnap server provide a CLI (OS) command spp_status on the SPP Server to have a quick view if all required processes are up and running.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Need a way to move clients between vsnap servers to load balance use of vsnaps

    Customer would like the ability to move clients from one vsnap to another to help balance the use of the vsnap servers in their environment.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    vSphere Web Client Integration

    VMware admins and operations work in vSphere Web Client. Customer need to be able to perform the backup/recovery duties from vSphere Web Client.SPP need an extention like DP for VMware provides.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Multiple tenants SPP catalog backups to single external vsnap

    Add support for replicating multiple SPP catalog backups to a single external VSNAP that is only visible the source server account.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Add Nutanix Acropolis AHV as supported SPP Hypervisor

    Please add Nutanix Acropolis AHV hypervisor to the supported Spectrum Protect Plus hypervisors.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Improve the security for S3 buckets & SPP including support for SAML authentication.

    Currently many tools that implement SSO (Single Sign-on) allow the use of SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) technology to raise the level of security and automate authentication with various tools. SAML is a standardized way of telling ext...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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