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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Spectrum Protect Server for SLES 15.X

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

REST style API for administrative purposes

An API towards the TSM server is desirable, in order to be able to automate functions other applications/services - instead of having to build wrappers for the administrative command-line.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

All server-side command to control which SP server a client connects to as primary

Allow Spectrum Protect administrator to issue a command that will alert a node it should connect to a different SP server as a primary.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Document update to be more precise in what is not supported

In the Spectrum Protect Server document, "Configuring clustered environments" section, there is a line below. > You can use other cluster products with IBM Spectrum Protect; however, documentation is not available and support is limited. https:...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Prevent media with read/write errors to be reused

When a tape has a write error, it should not be reused when it has returned to scratch pool. We need some method to track media statistics across the life time of a tape, from all the SP host that has used the tape. Each SP server should send tape...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

A setting or flag to prevent files from migrating if they are not yet replicated

Spectrum Protect is replicating file that have already been migrated to tape
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

When converting/migrating to container pool, add option to uncompress/dedup/compress legacy-compressed data

When migrating/converting legacy storage pools to the new container-type storage pool, it should be possible to specify on the command line, that "legacy" data during migration/conversion should be uncompressed, dedupped (if not already dedupped) ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

PKIX Validation.

When replacing the IBM Spectrum Protect Instance Self-signed certificate, with a CA signed certificate, the client to server or server to server validation of the CA signed certificate expects that the OID in the certificate chain must be an exact...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Expand "SET FAILOVERHLADDRESS" to node granularity

On Server Version 7.1 a function "SET FAILOVERHLADDRESS " was introduced to allow the failover IP to be different then the IP used for replication, this is a step in the right direction. However on TSM Servers with multiple IP's with clients in di...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect - password strength

Spectrum Protect has no capability to enforce strong passwords for "local" IDs. Only the length of the password can be specified. The new TLS certificates do give some better security. But I would like to see SP enforce strong passwords, eg 14 ran...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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