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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Enable more than 1 LDAP server for authentication because it is a single point of failure

System: SPP server 10.1.8Feature: Currently the SPP server only allows for 1 LDAP server entry. This is a single point of failure. There is no redundancy, if that single LDAP server is down there is no way for the team to log-in, because we do not...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus support for Db2 Purescale

Customer who has majority of database residing on Db2 of which 90%+ of those databases are Db2 Purescale requires support for this platform in Spectrum Protect Plus.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Expire individual backups in Spectrum Protect Plus

Expire individual host/application backups assigned to SLA policy
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Allow multiple or all SQL DBs selection in adhoc backup

Customer is requesting the ability to choose multiple DBs or all DBs for SQL Protection when running an adhoc backup via the SPP UI.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Possibility to configure all log retentions or group them like Job Logs , Access Log and System Logs in SPP

Possibility to configure all log retentions or group them like Job Logs , Access Log and System Logs in SPP.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP - Option for a Policy with Zero Retention / No Backup

We have several VMs in our environment that we do NOT want to backup. We tag these VMs with #No-Backup. However, there is currently no way in SPP to omit these VMs from the stats or associate them with a ‘No-Backup' Policy with a zero-day retentio...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for MS Sharepoint

Support for the protect of Microsoft Sharepoint environments on-premis. File-level recovery.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Add support to Spectrum Protect Plus for DB2 on Windows Systems

Actually Spectrum Protect Plus does not support DB2 running on Windows Systems.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - G Suite support needed

We need local backup for ours users who has been migrate from Domino to G Suite.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Appliance High Availability

Spectrum Protect Plus Appliance holds critical Data to backup and restore VMs. At present there is no way to make this Highly Available (HA) similar to Vsphere appliance. During normal operation we should be able to: Switch to secondary site and s...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration