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My votes: Spectrum Protect (Server)

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OSSM master encyption key needs to be protected from loss

If the OSSM master encyption key is lost, the protected data stored on the IBM Storage Protect server cannot be recovered for the IBM Storage Protect Plus client. The product needs a better resiliency mecanism to avoid the loss of that key.
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Improve performance when retrieving partial tapes by using RAO/oRAO on supported tape drives

IBM Enterprise tape drives (TS1140/3592-E07 onwards) supports Recommended Access Order (RAO). LTO-9 drives supports Open Recommended Acces Order (oRAO). This feature allows a tape drive to advise an application on the optimum retrieval order based...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

Output of prepare command need to be send via OC email or copied to an S3 target to support Airgap protection

Output of prepare command need to be send via Operation Center email report (for multiple servers) or copied to an S3 target (e.g. prepare devclass=cloud) to support Airgap protection. Optionally the S3 bucket should be WORM protected.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Ability to Copy or Tier Storage pool data of File Device class type to S3 compatible COS bucket with Retention Lock set

As we know it is difficult for Spectrum Protect to manage dedup extents when stored or tiered to a cloud container storage pool and is a major development work, IBM developers may think of introducing this functionality which may be quicker and ea...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Opject Agent support for AIX

Text from following link:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.7/srv.admin/t_object_agent_client_aix.html An IBM Spectrum Protect object agent cannot run directly on an IBM AIX operating system. However, you can offload IBM Spectr...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

move stgpooldir command

I'd like to se a command likemove stgpooldir <oldstgpooldir> <newstgpooldir>that move all containers in one stgpooldir to another automatiacally and in the background.or change the move container command to accept wildcard and a maxnum...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Containerpool Backup to File Device Class

Add support for backup of Directory Container Pools to Copypools using File Device Class.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Support for Immutable Flag for ext4/xfs file systems

Please introduce support to use immutable flags in container and file storage pools for linux file systems like ext4 and xfs
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SP move data out of CLOUD containers

Once TSM/SP data ends up in a CLOUD pool, there is no way to every move it anywhere else. We should be able to move data out of a cloud pool. MOVE NODADATA might be relevant, but would only work if you could specify source and destination pools. T...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Allow larger than 256 KiB blocks while accessing tape devices

As by TS009588298 we have performance issue while accessing tape drives, and using a larger block size (e. g. 2 Mebibytes instead of the now maximum 256 KiB) is improving performance a lot. This would even make it possible for us to backup the SP-...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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