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SPP integration n the IBM Resiliency Orchestration tools (IRO/CRO)

We have an urgent request from a Bank in Spain in UK to have IBM SPP integrated in the IBM Resiliency Orchestration tools (IRO/CRO) We heard that there are plans fro Q3 2019 but the customer will not accept this and wants the integration to happen...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Ability to backup Oracle databases (11gR2+) running on Oracle Enterprise Linux

Ability to backup Oracle databases (11gR2+) running on Oracle Enterprise Linux.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus introduce support for file level backup and restore for Ubuntu and Debian VMs

Spectrum Protect Plus introduce support for file level backup and restore for Ubuntu and Debian VMs
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Do not trigger a new base backup if the site associated with the SLA policy is changed

Currently if you alter the target site in an SLA policy it will trigger a new base backup. This behaviour should be adjusted so that by default it does not trigger a new base backup.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Instant VMDK Restore with Overwrite Capabilities

German customer would like the option of restoring VMDK over top of the exisiting original VMDK. The restore today only mounts the VMDK in parallel when recovered back to the original. Competitor VMware VDP for which SPP replaced was able to do a ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

additional info collumns to job monitoring

Please add additional colums for Total transfer size and Throughput in overview of jobs. (Monitoring)
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Introduce support for AD objects & containers

Introduce support for AD objects & containers
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

File Level Restore Enhancements

Requests from customer to improve the File Level Restore recovery capability in SPP and add the following: 1) Add an include list as well as an exclude list under VM options > select options 2) Collect data for and add a date modified field so ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Add option to add notes and custom annotations to VMs to allow better visibility of backups for VM admins

Add option to add notes and custom annotations to VMs to allow better visibility of backups for VM admins You should be able to add something like the below as an example. Last Backup Completed Successfully - Yes/NoLast Backup Completed At - 01/01...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Schedule Force Base Resources (full backup)

Possibilities to Schedule full backups in a SLA. Like, over a month VM makes a full backup randomly every night spread over the time you set.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration