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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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OSSM Proxy on the same server as SP OSSM Server

currently on VSNAP servers we have the ability to also run the vadp proxy on the same server. with OSSM this is not possible. we need to have separate proxies as using the SP OSSM server as a OSSM proxy doesnt work. having separate vm proxies requ...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Renaming MDF & LDF files during restore

Hello, The renaming of source MDF and LDF files for MSSQL DB during restore operation is basic functionality of any backup/restore software. It provides effective way how to store and structuralize files of DB. Since restored DB is usually new DB ...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Backup data from ESX host without vcenter

Spectrum Protect Plus requires vcenter in virtual machine backups.But not every customer has vCenter, their virtual environment only runs on the ESX host.In addition, many backup products can take backups from the ESX host without the need for vce...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Enable Replication to start on backup completion rather than having to state a start time

Enable Replication to start on backup completion rather than having to state a start time.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus for PowerVM

Backup Virtual Machines from IBM PowerVM virtualization
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Support for SQL on Linux

SQL DBA's do a research for using MS SQL on Linux for Big Databases
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

log on to SPP with single sign on (Use Windows session authentication)

please activate log on to SPP with single sign on(Use Windows session authentication) also a log on procedure with smart card would be convenient.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Login with certificates during file indexing on Linux

Case number: TS000844605 Customer REQUIRES use of certificates when logging into the Linux environment, currently SPP does not support login with certificates during indexing of files.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

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.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SPP SSL Certificate upload needs significant improvement

The process to upload an SSL certificate for Spectrum Protect Plus is unclear and misleading. The "manage your certificates" upload screen in the admin console states that the supported certificate format are cer and crt. These are also listed as ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

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