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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Provide options within SP to use SCSI commands to work with the tape operations, like mount a tape, unmount a tape, move tape from one slot to another etc

This is required for day to day operations, and this option is pretty much available with all other backup product vendors Refer - https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100022873 IBM case Ref - Case: TS016303198 (ibm.com)
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Functionality already exists

LDAP Group Authorization for ADMIN users

IBM Storage Protect is actually the only product in our environment that is not allowing to map LDAP groups to specific authorization levels. How should this work?You would for example define on the SP server in dsmserv.opt the LDAP url including ...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect OSSM support for SPP on Windows platform

We have many customers using SP server on Windows and running SPP in Hyper-V on top of it, we want to get rid of SPP vSnap but we can't do it when using SP server on Windows. And we can't deploy SP on Linux with SPP in KVM because SPP in KVM is no...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

In clustered (HA) environments, Spectrum Protect should support installing interim fixes without downtime

We are using Spectrum Product for Data Retention in a document centric application step, that serves access to contract statements over the web in an always on environment. Maintenance (major version or scheduled FP upgrade) is expected to be deli...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

IBM SP Protect server support on w2k19

I have to install a new IBM Sectrum protect server.I wish to use the OS Windows 2019 Server but I've seen that IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.9 is not supported on this version.I really wish to use this version of OS (Windows 2019) is possible to know w...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Better ability to filter out nodes when creating retention rule

In an big vmware deployment you want your retention rules to be as dynamic as possible. That is you want ability to create an advanced filter to filter out the virtual machines (VM's) to be included in the retention set. In an vmware environment y...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Forecast of remaining Restore Duration

Dynamically get a Forecast by spectrum protect Server of the remaining Restore Duration for Restores of Databases and File Restore
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

DBBackup to the cloud

Our customer is rolling out 24 Spectrum Protect servers, and we have found that there is STILL no way to get database backups into the cloud directly. Because AIX does not support CIFS mounting Azure (requires SMBv3, which was rejected by AIX prod...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Thresholds for security notifications

The security notifications introduced in v8.1.5 for ransomware protection can't be tuned and are usually inadequate for volatile systems. After every client backup session, statistics are analyzed for signs of a ransomware infection (large increas...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 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...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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