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Storage Protect Family

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Support for HCL Domino Server 14

HCL Domino Server 14 has been available for some time now. The Storage Protect Agent for Mail/Domino does not yet support this version. Since we and various other customers are due to update their HCL Domino servers to version 14, I would like to ...
17 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Planned for future release

Server Support for RHEL9

Currently RHEL 9.x has been GA for almost a year and is not supported for Storage Protect Server, forcing the use of ageing RHEL 8.x. Many orgs have a requirement to maintain software currency and would like to get their RHEL8->9 projects under...
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Option to configure rsize parameter in Storage Copy Data Management for Spectrum Virtualize/Flashsystem

Currently Storage Copy Data Management creates FlashCopy target volumes on Spectrum Virtualize/Flashsystem devices launching the following command: mkvdisk -mdiskgrp <pool_name> -iogrp <io_grp_name> -size <size> -rsize 0% -autoex...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

This applies to Spectrum CDM: Actions on multiple selected object

If we have to hold/release several jobs we have to do it on each single job. Selecting all the jobs the only available action is "Delete", which is the most dangerous option. I think it can be very helpful for the day by day activity to enable al...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Add Support of Snapdiff API v3

Dear developers NetApp provides a protocol or API called SnapDiff. Spectrum Protect currently supports the API in the Release v1. Now that v2 and v3 of SnapDiff are already available (as a REST API), NetApp has discontinued support for v1 in curre...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Planned for future release

Proactive alert on backup policy change or modify in IBM spectrum protect server for prod

To avoid data loss, IBM spectrum protect to Alert or warn proactively on the production server
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Support to backup S3-based on-premise Object storage (private cloud) to Tapes using ISP or ISPP

Object storage is trending these days and we want to be able to secure it using IBM Spectrum Protect or IBM SPP on tapes. Currently no option to do so on standard S3 protocol. Other vendors are supporting backing up S3-based object storage into ta...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 5 Planned for future release

Spectrum protect with java version 11

The latest version of the Java that is supported with the SP for VE and the server is version 8 which means that Java version 11 is not supported as it hasn't been tested. But our customer is planning to remove Java 8 on all the servers across the...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 12 Planned for future release

Lack of anomaly scanning integration with IBM Spectrum Protect Family

Lack of anomaly scanning integration to detect, diagnose and recover clean copies from a Cyber attack with IBM Spectrum Protect Family.Lack of this functionality is a major road block to deploy/adoption an IBM supported Cyber Resiliency solution.
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

Lack of integration with IBM Spectrum Protect

Lack of an integration between IBM Spectrum Protect (SP) and IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management (CDM) using Pure Storage. Lack of this functionality is a major road block to deploy/adoption a supported combination of Pure, CDM and SP solution.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

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