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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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    Improvement of SP command 'q job'

    Hello IBM Here is my idea: It will be useful to be able to improve the command 'q job' such that it is possible to use the stgrule name as parameter, to just see the jobs for that particular stgrule. We are using many different stgrules, and today...
    6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Library initialization at SP Server startup needs improvement

    When a Storage Protect server is starting up, it is querying the inventory of each tape library defined to this Storage Protect server. the Storage Protect server is using a 256KB buffer to store the inventory information returned by the tape libr...
    7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    customize commandapproval commands

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

    Provide a simple administrative command to show the the total size of backed-up data on a server instance on a given single day (24 hours)

    While it is required to size the replication server pairs, the product does not provide a simple administrative command to show the total size of backed-up data on a server instance on a given single day (24 hours). Currently, the only way to get ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    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

    Support Flexgroup volumes in containerpools

    NDMP Backup of Netapp-Flexgroup should be supported to container pools. Flexvol is supported and working, but Flexgroup are denied because of different magic in the header (EA6C vs. EA6D).
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

    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

    Optimize migration algorythm of seq. storagepool to collocated storagepool

    Short:When migrating data from a file pool to a collocated tape pool a large number of mounts occur in the tape pool causing throughput to go down and maintenance can not complete in time. Setup:Data flowClient > (backup) > file pool > (m...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under 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

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