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Spectrum Protect (Server)

Enabling parallel I/O when migrating date from file-pool to tape-pool due to synchronous sequential write

With a traditional Storage Protect implementation with backup to file-pool the migragtion from file-pool to tape-pool is limited on disk latency to reach optimized a high throuhgput on tape. For an example with a disc latency of 2ms you can reach ...
5 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

SESSION REFUSED - CLIENT IS DOWN-LEVEL WHEN SESSIONINITIATION SERVERONLY IS USED

Hello support team! I hope you are well! I raise this PMR because it seems we are hitting - https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IT25298 - IT25298: ANR0428W SESSION REFUSED - CLIENT IS DOWN-LEVEL WHEN SESSIONINITIATION SERVERONLY IS USED. Short ...
10 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

FS5600 Snapshot Approach for Spectrum Protect

To have the spectrum protect server db2 protect from crash recovery or cyber attack in faster way
13 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Storage Protect server to run on Alma and Rocky

Some public customers need cost effective solutions. Especially option to run application on open source platforms like Alma and Rocky.
24 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

SP server receiving STA messages should write STA messages out to filetextexit

This idea is related to idea https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/SPF-I-3471 requesting that the Storage Protect storage agent should report all its messages to the Storage Protect server it is connecting to. The Storage Protect server receiving the messag...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Storage Protect server and storage agent should be supported to run on AIX 7.3 TL4

We need to update all our AIX hosts to AIX 7.3 TL4 in near future. Because of this, we require that the Storage Protect server and storage agent are supported to run on AIX 7.3 TL4.
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Planned for future release

true ransomeware detection

Gov. require all banking industry to do true ( AI driven ) ransomeware detection and defense which available to other Dataprotection software. the way we do now is by a fake ANR3692W msg without any intelligence ( our product manager Girish aware ...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

support SP server db encryption

government of canada is requesting all financial institution to encrypt the database . our current Server database isn't encrypted or not support encrypt from DB2 side.
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Extension of the character limit for management class names

A customer operate under a policy of assigning a unique management class to each node.By including the node name in the management class name, it is possible to identify which management class corresponds to which node.Currently, management class ...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Enable dynamically changing the language of server query output

Currently, the server’s output language cannot be changed dynamically when issuing administrative query commands. To change the language, the server must be restarted after updating the LANGUAGE server option in dsmserv.opt. In terms of ACTLOG, pr...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

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