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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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    Automate scan and fix of "unavailable" containers for Spectrum Protect servers

    Today I found that a number of vm's did not backup snapshots to the (container based) storage pool. This happened before and points to the error: ANS9351E Data was not available on server and was skipped. Processing snapshot ----------------------...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Future consideration

    Backup database to s3/cloud - support for immutability

    Cloud container pool has support for immutability and if you store data there, it makes sense to also be able to store the database backup in cloud with immutability. Currently, database can be stored in cloud, but no immutability.
    12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

    Opject Agent support for AIX

    Text from following link:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.7/srv.admin/t_object_agent_client_aix.html An IBM Spectrum Protect object agent cannot run directly on an IBM AIX operating system. However, you can offload IBM Spectr...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Improve disk to tape data migration by allowing multiple threads to read data from disk in parallel

    Spectrum Protect (SP) server data migration performance from disk to tape is limited by the data throughput reading data from disk. In this situation the SP server was reading data from disk (flash) with about 90MB/sec.The SP server internal instr...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

    Support reversal of roles of replication servers which have Retention Sets

    If you have retention sets on either a source or target replication server, you cannot reverse the roles of the replication servers; that is, you cannot make the source server the target server and vice versa. If you do so, data in retention sets ...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Enhanced RBAC with command specific granularity

    Implement enhanced RBAC policy configuration based on a per command configuration policy. We want to specify per defined adminitrator which actions/commands can be executed. Command approval as implemented in the latest versions is to limited
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Ability to Copy or Tier Storage pool data of File Device class type to S3 compatible COS bucket with Retention Lock set

    As we know it is difficult for Spectrum Protect to manage dedup extents when stored or tiered to a cloud container storage pool and is a major development work, IBM developers may think of introducing this functionality which may be quicker and ea...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Add additional commands to IBM Spectrum Protect's command approval infustructure

    IBM Spectrum Protect currently has the ability to require approval from two administrators for certain commands. However, commands like REGISTER ADMIN, UPDATE ADMIN, and REMOVE ADMIN are not included in this framework. From a security point of vie...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

    No direct option for secondary copy to cloud and no immutable copy feature

    Spectrum Protect Integrating with the cloud for a secondary copy streamlines backups, eliminating the need for an another on-premises backup server. This approach offers cost efficiency, scalability, remote accessibility, redundancy, automated man...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Add security certificate expiration date to "query status" output

    Current options for viewing security certificate include an actlog entry when the server is started and an option to toggle on an ANR message for every session. Having the expiration date in the query status output would make an easy way for custo...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

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