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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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    customize commandapproval commands

    SP 'set commandapproval' doesn't allow to customize the predefined list of commands. Security needs are different from customer to customer.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

    Enable a "read only" system administrator for monitoring purposes

    With the introduction of multi factor authentication in Spectrum Protect, administrative access to the software is significantly increased. However, an administrator without MFA must be used for automated monitoring activities. And for the executi...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    After TLS certificate expires, IBM Spectrum Protect Server automatically renews the previous certificate distributed to nodes.

    IBM Spectrum Protect Server TLS certificate expires 10 years after the server instance is created. Immediately after the expiration, all client nodes are unable to connect to the server. One of my customers provides a backup service in their priva...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Ransomware detection functionality for IBM Storage Protect.

    IBM Storage Protect should provides a way to detect possible ransomware attack on backed-up and/or archived data. While I believe the best solution is to employ IBM Storage Insights to provide such functionality because IBM Storage Virtualize on I...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Support replication of Retention Set information as well as the data

    At present, retention rules and retention sets that are defined on the source replication server are not replicated to the target server. Only the data in the retention sets is replicated. This is a problem, in that should the source server be los...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 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
    11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Easy change certificate on S3 storage agent

    Today the S3 Agent certifikate is catched from the default certifikation on sp server at the the installation of s3 agent. It's not possible to add a new certifikate to the s3 agent certificate store. To change the certificate you must deinstall t...
    over 3 years 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...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

    Native support for Spectrum protect Server HA on RHEL cluster

    Toyota Kirloskar Motor Ltd (TKML) has recently changed there Spectrum protect server from AIX to RHEL. Customer was using Power HA based high availability solution for Spectrum protect server previously and now is expecting the same capability on ...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Enhance Spectrum Protect to use Tapefunction Recomended Access Order for repair stg Containerpool from Tape.

    The current support of tapefunction in Protect has more then one gaps in the area off use tape storage. The main concerns are the support of tape in the relation to containerstg. These current designs generate a alongated repair time if we want to...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

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