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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Provide SPP report download in .csv format

Customer would like to be able to download reports from SPP in .csv format.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Modify 'Protected and Unprotected VMs' report to allow display of only unprotected VM

The current report shows both protected and unprotected VMs in report and allow to hide Unprotected VM. However there is no report which can display only unprotected VM. Business Justification: We have thousands of VMs part of protection and their...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

VADP Proxy should be available as an appliance

The SPP server is available as an appliancevSnap server is available as an appliancebut VADP Proxy requires install of RHEL and installation of VADP Proxy software.This doesn't make any sense since the VADP Proxy already are part of the SPP server...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

better LDAP and MS AD integration in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Better and easier integration of LDAP, especially complex Microsoft Active Directory for Spectrum Protect Plus. The functionality and setting options are currently too limited.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Show which backup is full and which is incremental as listed

Spectrum Protect Plus backs up as first full and then incremental forever. In some cases CBT can be erased so SPP needs to take full backup.We can see if the backup is full or incremental on the backup job logs.But we need to examine all the backu...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

IBM SPP vSnap Seeding from a Remote Site

Customer with Remote Offices need a way to seed initial backups in the local vSNAP server with the centralised HQ rather than waiting for data to transfer over the WAN links.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Backup SLA hung

More generic job timeout option if for any reason a database/VM backup would hold the entire job
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus GUI national language support

Request for SPP GUI in Japanese.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Document CLI based upgrade of SPP server

Our team uses IBM Spectrum Protect Plus server for data backup and for data reuse. However, we need to upgrade IBM Spectrum Protect Plus server component to current version but we cannot access the admin interface on port 8090 cause this IP port i...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release