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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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More granularity for Retention Rule

To be able to choose directory(ies) in Retention Rule to have more flexibility. Most of the time, needs are to create a retention set on specific directory, not all the filespace.SP well know all the backed up directories and files from a node. Th...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Support for ROCE Tape drives in ISP

Hello, If ISP would support ROCE tape drives like TS1155/TS1160 this would deliver following advantages:- ISP could run in a VM and support Tape which is currently not possible with FC Tape drives due to Fibrechannel limitations. - ROCE attached t...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Allow copy storage rules to select only active data AND to allow selection of from-date and to-date for copy to tape in fully hydrated tape copies.

This is useful because starting from scratch and trying to copy multiple inactive as well as the active copy of extremely large data backups (for example Epic databases) to tape for hydrated copies takes an extremely long time. The library is unav...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Segregation of Duties in Spectrum Protect server

Client wants to completely segregate the authority to manage accounts in Spectrum Protect from all other Spectrum Protect authorizations.Current setup where a System account is required to manage admin IDs and -rights which includes all other righ...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

NDMP - NAS backups - Encrypted communications with TLS 1.2/3

Required to secure communications in line with all other client server operations
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

fix column widths in dsmadmc interactive screen output

When using dsmadmc for SP management, the screen output quality looks often still like from previous century. Especcially number columns are often too narrow even when there is plenty of console width still available. This leads to wrapped numbers...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

SP server to support IBM S3 cloud side retention policies, WORM features, object locking

When using Cloud Storage Pool in a Spectrum Protect Server , it should support all the features that can be set at the S3 level ( especially when the S3 cloud is IBM !! ) like Cloud side retention policies, WORM features, object locking.For retent...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

Migrating IBM Spectrum Protect Servers from One Operating System to Another

Currently there is support of migrating an IBM Spectrum Protect server from AIX to Linux x86_64 via extractdb/insertdb but not the other way around.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

More control options for a running restore without having to abort it. (dynamically change timeout value, ...)

Spectrum Protect has several time out values to detect „sick, but not dead“ situations and for a good reason actively terminates sessions when specified time out value has been reached.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Implement server certificate information in OC

Implement server certificate information in operations centre to prevent from the need to connect to system and using difficult gsk commands.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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