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Storage Protect Family

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Support for Microsoft Server 2025 - WinGet

The IBM Storage Protect BA Client for Windows uses a complex installation process. spinstall.exe handles C++ package installation, language-specific MST files, and a file-by-file structure. This creates problems for mass deployment on Windows Serv...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Multi-session retrieve functionality

Similar to an older idea Multi-session retrieve [SPF-I-947] I would very like IBM to reevaluate and hopefully support multi session support for Archive retrieve workloads. With the current implementation it is not feasible to archive data to ISP a...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Future consideration

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.
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

SP DP for SQL on windows server 2025

Having customers already installing server 2025, and are in need of a working DP from SP.
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Future consideration

Use larger containers for NonDedup data

We have about 100k of small 64M containers that stores Non Dedup data(one SP instance). Other types of data gets stored in containers up to 10G in size. NonDedup data should be stored in larger files of 1G or maybe even 10G. This would reduce file...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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.
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

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
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Testar compatibilidade versão 9.7.1.0 do Isilon OneFS NDMP com TSM Client

Testar compatibilidade versão 9.7.1.0 do Isilon OneFS NDMP com TSM Client com o Storage Protect 8.1.16 or posterior. Tivemos TS018215491 Quando vamos escolher o restore pela opção [ point in Time ] o mesmo da erro: ANS309E remote operation failed ...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

More email options from Operations Center such as To, CC and BCC

Currently Operations Center is sending emails thru the BCC option and no way to make it send using the To or CC email options. It is very helpful in a colaborative environment to know where these emails go and who should be contacted so BCC will s...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

IBM CDM should be able to work with more than one Network Card to perform backup and restore operations

Customer has hosts and storage subsystems placed in distinct networks. We configured a second NIC in the CDM server but once this interface comes UP, all scheduled backup fails, the reason is that they can't find the target hosts, I wonder some ro...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

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