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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Spectrum Protect PLUS support Oracle 10g

Important Telco company (Vodefaone) need to support Oracle 10g over RedHat v5.9 with Spectrum Protect PLUS.They have some internal applications and it's impossible to upgrade RH version.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect PLUS support RedHat v5.9

Important Telco company (Vodefaone) need to support RedHat v5.9 with Spectrum Protect PLUS.They have some internal applications and it's impossible to upgrade RH version and oython 2.4.The objective it's to protect (with SPP) Oracle 10g.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect PLUS support RedHat v6.4

Important Telco company (Vodefaone) need to support RedHat v6.4 with Spectrum Protect PLUS.They have some internal applications and it's impossible to upgrade RH version.The objective it's to protect (with SPP) Oracle 11g.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus support for TLS1.2 for VMware v6.0

Currently, TLS1.2 is supported for vSphere6.5+. Request for TLS1.2 support for VMware vSphere v6.0 for SPP v10.1.1.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

RFE: Simplify management in allowing native user to cahnge their own password.

Any native user that is able to login into SPP should be able to set/change their own password regardless of the resource groups and roles assigned to them
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SCDM - CDM/Sentinel - Post snapshot script run before Sentinel scan starts

Clients using Sentinel Scan engine needs a way to kickoff a Post Snap script before the Scan Engine gets started for Sentinel. This will allow clients the ability to get some work done before a long scan run, such at 15-20 hours.
5 days ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

lowering the permissions to view access logs

User permission role set to "VIEW LOG" will to give user access to all LOGS.It will not be able to see "FAILED LOGIN". Only SUPERUSER can see this type of entries. That permissions are to height to check logs only, especially in third party script...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM Storage Protect Plus Future Version can be able to Backup and Restore VM on cross Hypervisor platform as like Hyper-V to VMware to Hyper-V.

It can be useful a VM can be restore without require any connectors or convertors to change the VM disks from one hypervisor to another hypervisor and to reduce more admin tasks. In our environment we have IBM SP and SPP to compete with other Back...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

How to calculate backed data volume on Replication / SPPArchive / Cloud storage?

HalloBacked up date is storing on BACKUP vsnap and then are copied to REPLCATION VSNAP (and maybe Cloud, SPPArchive/tape) We can easily calculate size of backed up date on BACKUP vsnap based on output from this endpoint: "/api/endeavour/catalog/re...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

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