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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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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 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

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...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Warning message needed for deleting any data storage in object lock storage in cloud in IBM storage Protect server

Current behavior: ISP allows deletion actions (e.g., DELETE FILESPACE) even when target data is stored in a cloud container storage pool with Object Lock. Risk: Admins can mistakenly remove catalog references while the cloud objects remain undel...
7 months 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 ...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Request for Warning Message in Activity Log for Cloud Connection SAS Token Expiration

Current Behaviour: The IBM Storage Protect server does not generate activity log events related to cloud connection SAS token expiration. Risk: No access to the cloud blob storage will occur once the SAS token expires, resulting in backup and rest...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Support creating Copy-Container pools to VTL instead of physical tape only

Customers do have VTL instead of physical tape in use, VTL is used as disaster recovery media. Customer plans to ingest Object Data (IBM Fusion) via S3 Object Agent to a Disk Container Storage Pool. Protection of a Disk Container Storage Pool is p...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Import the data from tape and sequential volumes, written from other IBM Storage Protect servers

Why is it useful? This feature will help with restoring/retrieving data from the tapes, which may have expired in database and also if the tapes are owned/written by other SP server. Who will benefit from it? This feature will help in DR tests, wh...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

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...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Including New Generation Flashsystem in IBM Storage Protect server Blueprints

The existing IBM Storage Protect Server Blueprints reference and provide validation results for IBM FlashSystem 5015, 5035, and 5200 models only. However, newer IBM FlashSystem platforms such as FlashSystem 5600, 7600, and other current-generation...
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

SP Server certificate management

Signed certificates gets shorter lifetime (down to 3 months), and intermediate ca (typically 2 years now) gets shorter and shorter lifetime. This adds lots of work for certificate management on SP servers. We can script most of it (create request,...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

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