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Storage Protect Family

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Process DB snapshot volumes with DRM

Prior to SP 8.1.25, the SP sever disaster recovery manager (DRM) would process DB snapshot backup volumes. Beginning in 8.1.25 (see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IT47560), DB snapshot volumes are ignored by DRM which can make them invisib...
about 4 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

Detect and delete previous snapshot operation under Vcenter or mark the backup failure for corresponding Virtual Machine

Its useful to avoid reach out the maximum capacity of Vcenter snapshots. SPP must be able to detect the situation, where there are a lot of unsuccessful removed and consolidated snapshot, have to stop the operation and mark the Backup as failure f...
2 days ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

Backup database to s3/cloud - support for immutability

Cloud container pool has support for immutability and if you store data there, it makes sense to also be able to store the database backup in cloud with immutability. Currently, database can be stored in cloud, but no immutability.
2 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Windows ReFS is not supported for Single File Restore

Because Windows ReFS filesystem is getting more and more popular it is a major lack of functionality and usability by not supporting ReFS for single file restore with the selfservice portal.
2 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

GCP Object Lock support

Backups immutability feature by using google cloud object locking. Add GCP to a large list of already compatible object storage sources: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-protect-object-storage-support
9 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

ISP4VE - Re-use the old view of the plugin

In the past it was possible to adjust the data mover with plugin function from the VCenter Plugin. With the newer version it is not possible anymore to adjust it easily Depending on the environment the flexible adjustment on this place is needed. ...
9 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

Support for snapshot based Hyper-V backup on Windows 2025

Planning of upgrade to Hyper-V on Windows 2025 needs support to protect the data via snapshots.
14 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

Implement the cancel reclaim command

At this moment, it's not possible to cancel a reclamation process through ISP scripting. The only option you have is to do this outside of the server with OS scripts. These scripts first have to retrieve the process number of running reclaim proce...
20 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Allow to remove commands from AlwaysOnServermon

The SP server AlwaysOnServermon is a very useful and well accepted support tool. Nevertheless, in some situations diagnostic SP server commands executed by servermon my cause trouble to productive SP server environments. In our case, SHOW ALLOC ca...
24 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Storage Protect client and possibly server Linux on ARM (ampere computing)

We are evaluation running more workloads on ampere computing (containers but also std vms)I would like to use storage protect client for backup/archiving as step1 and also interested in the serverside if We cant run AIX or Linux on power then the ...
27 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

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