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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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    A higher level of algorithm customization is required for adding (or removing) commands for SP "command approval" requests.

    In the current version, it is only possible to enable or disable multiple confirmation of changes in the SP server via a list of commands defined by IBM development. It is not possible to select, remove, or add commands that are important to the c...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

    Extend node replication to allow it to also replicate decommissioned state of nodes

    In a replication environment (data and metadata is replicated from source to target server) it is currently not possible to "decomm node" for nodes that are replicated. One has to first disable replication for nodes before being able to decommissi...
    4 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    new command to q options which differ from their default value

    There are many options available for the SP server, documented as well as many undocumented server options. All have default values, some/many are adapted to specific environments. A new command would be helpful which displays all the options whic...
    5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Under review

    Non-blocking Storage Protect server audit library

    Today, when a Storage Protect server requires to run AUDIT LIBRARY on a SCSI library, all Storage Protect server activities on that SCSI library needs to be stopped. Means, processes and sessions already using the SCSI library its tape drives need...
    2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Support for Ubuntu 22.04

    As Ubuntu 20.04 support comes to an end in April 2025 please could you provide support for Ubuntu 22.04 for Spectrum Protect Server as per the previous versions listed here IBM Storage Protect 8.1.25 Server Requirements and Support for Linux x86_64
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

    To use S3 (or Blob) object storage without tsm deduplication as primary storage pools.

    We want to use S3 (or Blob) object storage without tsm deduplication, as similar as for DEFINE STGPOOL (Define a retention storage pool) with cloud device class, but for normal primary stgpool. Compression and encryption should be possible, but wi...
    8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Allow repair stg to use any storage pool from target replication server to recover data

    Configuration: Replica source Storage is container pool only Copy pool exist on tape Replica target Storage is container pool with tiering to tape or S3 after X days Copy pool exist on tape Scenario When the source detects a bad file/object with a...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Provide ENABLECLOUDDATALock on cloud container stgpools also for Azure blob storage.

    We need the option ENABLECLOUDDATALock on cloud container stgpools also for Azure blob storage, it is working for AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage, but actually not for Azure blob.
    8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

    Add parallelism when replicating data stored on tape

    When using node replication with data stored on tape, the SP replication process is single threaded. This means that only a single tape drive will be used when replicating a node even if there are many free/available tape drives in the tape librar...
    7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Lock a SP client node and all its backup and archive data to prevent changes and deletions

    In case of a ransom ware attack, customer immediately locks affected Storage Protect Client nodes to prevent attacked nodes from accessing the Storage Protect server. This is done to prevent changes to the Storage Protect clients backup and to pre...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

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