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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Requesting Support for 2-Factor Authentication with Spectrum Protect

As backup data is a primary tool used to recover from ransomware, ensuring the highest level of security surrounding the protection of TSM / Spectrum Protect data has been highlighted by Information Security. Having administrative accounts which h...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Protection copy for On-Premise Cloud Containers

On Premise Storage like Cloud Object Storage (COS) and other vendor solutions gives the ability, to use modern data protection with on premise cloud storage pools. In the age of cyber crime and ransomware, it is very important and a business requi...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Allow local protect storagepool for cloud Container

Because of compliance guidelines, many users need to implement a “media brake” at their backup strategy. But the, very cost effective, Cloud Container Storage lacks the ability to protect the Storage pool to a tape pool.As the “protect stgpool typ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

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...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

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

Decommission VM confirmation with filespace name

When decommission is run for example:DECOMMISSION VM VMNAME 999 NAMETYPE=FSID No confirmation of what filespace/vmname is shown. The confirmation message:ANR3392W DECOMMISSION VM: This command will decommission the specified virtual machine. The a...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Multisession replication of a big file

At the moment the limitation of replication over the WAN with latency and package lost is the fact, that one file can only be replicated in one session. Starting with TSM 7.1 big files are represented by segments within TSM, but still only one ses...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Server for SLES 15.X

No versions of Spectrum Protect are currently support SLES15
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

RHEL 8 server support

After Linux: Minimum Linux x86_64 server requirements https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.7/srv.install/r_srv_lnx_sysreq_inst_x-linux.htmlthere is RHEL support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 or later Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

retset without retrule

The new feature retset requiers to define also an retrule with is basicly a scheduler. We use an external scheduler and don't need the retrule. It's also useless to define an retule for ontime retset. It should be possible to generate an retset wi...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

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