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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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    Provide additional protection when using the decommission command against Oracle or DB2 nodes.

    Spectrum Protect Oracle and DB2 client decommission can lead to immediate data expiration and data loss. Due to the copygroup settings required for Oracle and DB2, the risk of using the decommission node command can inadvertently lead to data loss...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Delete orphaned entries in DEDUPSTATS

    In Spectrum Protect there is a requirement to use the GENERATE DEDUPSTATS command to determine the deduplication performance on an individual node / filespace level. The DELETE DEDUPSTATS command is used to tidy up old entries. However, it will le...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Protect S3 object client via storage rule for copying data

    We are using SPP and want that the VMs are directly restorable in a DR case. Currently we are using on the ISP server a directory container and protect it with "protect stgp" via copycontainer and stgrule (copy data -> offsite tape) to be prepa...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Enable object lock for internal DB backup and better retention management on Volhist

    With object lock being available on backup storage pools there is a requirement to ensure the internal DB2 database can also be protected to the same level and functionality. A check of the object metadata to ensure the lock has expired/no longer ...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Certification trust

    Trust certificates trusted by OS - get rid of own local cert db. If we replace certificate on SP-server it should just work, as long as it is a global trusted certificate.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    would like a ballance stgpooldir command

    This occurs when adding directories for added space to a spectrum protect container. The existing directories are very full, and the newly added directories remain very empty. There is no balancing of data across the newly added and existing direc...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Windows server as virtual machine on KVM based hypervisor.

    In order to be compliant with IBM to get support and to have more flexibility around Spectrum Protect, we need to be able to run Spectrum Protect server as a virtual machine on a KVM based hypervisor (RHEV/Proxmox VE/Native KVM etc...) with Window...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect 8.1.7 Retrule for NDMP data

    Client have requirement to retain the NDMP data for long term retention. We have upgraded the Spectrum Protect servers from 8.1.6 to 8.1.7 and tried to enable the retrule for NDMP data. But unfortunately that feature is not enabled for NDMP /datam...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    S3 Object Agent, Slow Metadata Retrieval

    When querying metadata from the S3 object agent, e.g. requests against filesystem structure, dir list, deleting expired data/snapshots, response time is very slow (50min+). This causes applications (e.g. ElasticSearch) which use the API to throw e...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    move retention data from one storage pool to another

    It's not currently possible to move retention data from one storage pool to another. It is possible to move retention data to different volumes in the same storage pool. LTO9 tape volumes. That said, this might be a little more difficult to do wit...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

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