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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Update of SPP image in Azure Market Place to a more recent version

The customer is deploying SPP on prem and in Azure Cloud. While they are at 10.1.15 in their on-prem setup, the image in Azure market place is still at 10.1.11, which is outdated. Request to update the Azure Marketplace image to at least 10.1.14
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Needs more information

Enable text based output from Rest API

Rest API query for license usage comes out as pdf, excel or html. These are not well suited to import to other systems for automation. I would like the output as text, like csv file.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Future consideration

Reusedelay-like option in Spectrum Protect Plus, similar to the option in Spectrum Protect

A reconciliation option between vSnap contents and SPP catalog, in the event that an SPP catalog restore is needed, so that at least some backup recoveries can be facilitated from those snaps missing meta data.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Application archive logs included in copy operations

SPP can protect both databases and its archive logs. Those backups are stored on a vSnap, so the customer can restore both of them if they need. If the customer wants to run a copy operation of those backups to a Cloud Object Storage, for example,...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Detailed VM Backup Utilization report

This RFE is for improving the reporting function. What I think SPP is in need of is a more detailed report of storage usage per VM or application. More specific a presentation of deduplication ratio and compression ratio, with sizes in bytes - bef...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

SPP - Enable 'disable log capability' to SQL Ad Hoc Backup

In an SQL Always-On (clustered) DB restore, we need the ability to disable log backups using the SQL Ad-Hoc backup function.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Save the last copy

We have seen scenarios where VMware Virtual Machines just disrepair out from vCenter because of VMX file has been corrupted, or has been deleted of mistake.And because of the server or service hasn't been that important or been used that offend. W...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP GUI integrated in SP OC

if SPP Vsnap will have a direct integration with SP, GUIs should also be integrated. This integration could be show as only one product with different features.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - bring greater visibility on data and metadata if both do not match

TS003754429It was recommended for a RFE to be opened to give greater visibility into what is on the vSNAPs matches what is in the SPP database/catalog.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

File Recovery Options in SPP

Client expects more innovative and easy to use features when it comes to file recovery in SPP. Customer expect modern software to be as easy to use as an iPhone! Non Indexed VM:It should be possible to recover files from a non-indexed VM. Function...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration