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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Oracle log truncate on Spectrum Protect Plus

Need for SPP to delete Oracle/dBase log with a user defined frequency.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

vRealize Automation (vRA) / vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) plugin with SPP

Ability to interface SPP with VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) and vRealize Orchestrator (vRO)
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Hadoop support by SPP

Ability to backup and restore Hadoop data with Spectrum Protect Plus
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Report Restore VM in SPP

Auditor person want to report restore same as menu function report vm backup history but in ibm spectrum protect plus not have
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

Support for SQL on Linux

SQL DBA's do a research for using MS SQL on Linux for Big Databases
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SPP Needs fallback for vmx-04 (without cbt = full)

Spectrum Protect Plus does not backup VMs with virtual machine hardware version (vmx) 04, because this version does not support CBT (changed block tracking). Spectrum Protect VE does backup these machines but makes a full backup every time (fallba...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SPP Support for IBM Informix

Customer requests support for Informix in SPP. Our Customer is interested in the reuse feature because this is important for their business.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

support of AzureStack in Spectrum Protect Plus

we want to move our backups to cloud as 'second backup'. Our cloud provider offers AzureStack /pleAzureStack/, but in menu of Spectrum Protect plus is only Azure. Could you add support of AzureStack in some of near updates?
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

Offload to multiple Spectrum Protect Repositories

Current problem is, only one Spectrum Protect Repository can be adressed using accesskey and secret key. But we need to offload to multiple servers, due to contingency reasons. We think restriction does not make any sense, and we were glad if this...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

OpenStack backup with Spectrum Protect Plus

Our important customer is asking for remote API backup of OpenStack environment. Preferred support with Spectrum Protect Plus (as the extend container support) but Spectrum Protect API combination could be another variant.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

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