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Spectrum Protect (Server)

FS5600 Snapshot Approach for Spectrum Protect

To have the spectrum protect server db2 protect from crash recovery or cyber attack in faster way
13 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

true ransomeware detection

Gov. require all banking industry to do true ( AI driven ) ransomeware detection and defense which available to other Dataprotection software. the way we do now is by a fake ANR3692W msg without any intelligence ( our product manager Girish aware ...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Allow Dynamic loading of TLS Certificates - do not require a halt and restart to take effect

TLS Cert standards are shortening their max ttl. After March 15th 2026, the max TTL for a TLS Cert is 199 days. This will shorten to 100 days on March 15th, 2027 and to 47 days after March 15th, 2029.Other software has Dynamic Certificate Manageme...
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Under review

Support incremental data transfer to cloud archive target (not require full retention set).

Currently, the only way to send data to a cloud archive target (S3 Glacier, IBM Cloud archive or accelerated archive) is to create a retention pool and then send a retention set. When using the cloud archive target, the retention set is always a f...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

To use S3 (or Blob) object storage without tsm deduplication as primary storage pools.

We want to use S3 (or Blob) object storage without tsm deduplication, as similar as for DEFINE STGPOOL (Define a retention storage pool) with cloud device class, but for normal primary stgpool. Compression and encryption should be possible, but wi...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Under review
111 VOTE

Provide Support for Tiering to Tape for Spectrum Protect Plus Data

Spectrum Protect does not allow Data from Spectrum Protect Plus getting tiered from Container Pool to Tape, at current only Tiering to a Cloud Pool, but only to cloud storage classes that support the rapid recall of data.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Future consideration

new command to q options which differ from their default value

There are many options available for the SP server, documented as well as many undocumented server options. All have default values, some/many are adapted to specific environments. A new command would be helpful which displays all the options whic...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Under review

Storage Protect server to run on Alma and Rocky

Some public customers need cost effective solutions. Especially option to run application on open source platforms like Alma and Rocky.
24 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Support copy to Cloud Container Pool using STGRules

It's a very common use case to have one local backup of the data and for cyber resilience another air gaped copy on locked cloud storage. Unfortunately, this is currently not supported by Storage Protect. Please implement "Copy to Cloud Container ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Under review

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.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Future consideration

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