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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Identification of offsite tapes when a SPP archive restore (with SP) is made ?

SPP archives are sent to LTO tapes with SP.Tapes doesnt stay unto library. if a restore job from an spp archive is executed, we need to know all requested tapes to insert into library when a restore from an archive SPP is made.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

DB backup not running on all nodes in oracle

we have customers with oracle DBs that have some DBs registered in all nodes but that are not running in all nodes, and the SPP cannot backup these DBs, it is necessary to make the SPP capable of doing so
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Needs more information

Make a setting that indicates internet access available or not

Secure installations does not grant internet access to any hosts directly, neither in nor out From fw logs, we can see that SPP tries to connect to outside servers, and that causes just noise in logs. I would like settings that enables or disables...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Filter for Backup, Replication and Copy in GUI

Under Job History in the SPP GUI it would be helpful to be able to filter by job job type. Example: Backup, Replication or Copy. This would make it much easier to search for specific jobs.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future 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...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Temporary AWS security credentials for S3 access

Spectrum Protect Plus currently only supports the use of permanent AWS access keys to access S3. This request is for support for access to S3 buckets with temporary AWS credentials. Spectrum Protect Plus should be able to support the rotation of a...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future 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 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Direct SPP Primary Backups to Cloud Storage.

Direct Primary backups to Cloud Storage. without the need to send it first to vSnap and then create an additional copy to Cloud Storage
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future 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 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Allow Spectrum Protect Plus to restore database to different instance using existing database name

I backup a database EXAMPLE on one server(prodserver) under instance Prodinst1. I have a test server(testserver) with instance Testinst1. As part of testing, our developers use testserver/TestInst1 database EXAMPLE. SPP backs up the database on pr...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

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