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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Provide support for COS WORM (and other S3 or BLOB equivalent WORM features)

Multiple customers and BPs have requested that Spectrum Protect supports the WORM functionality in S3 offload, be that the COS specific or the general S3 protocol WORM functionality. While not specifically required it also seems prudent to extend ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Planned for future release

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...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 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...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Server Cross-replication with Client Acceptors to both on all clients

Site fail-over/fail-back of the "restore" function (read from ISP server(s)) is already provided in the ISP server product. Site fail-over/fail-back of the "backup" function (write to ISP server) is not. If site A goes down, backups must be suspen...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Directory-container stgpool protection using cloud-container stgpools

A directory-container storage pool can not be protected by using a cloud-container storage pool, neither via the PROTECTstgpool nor the PROTECTLOCalstgpools options. It would make sense to allow a directory-container storage pool to be protected t...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Abort of STGRule ActionType=Copy if no MountPoint is available

Starting a Storage Rule with ActionType COPY and no Tape MountPoints are available the transaction is aborted by the server.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Node Replication for NDMP Node

Node Replication for NDMP Node feature in not available in Spectrum Protect Server
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

OSSM master encyption key needs to be protected from loss

If the OSSM master encyption key is lost, the protected data stored on the IBM Storage Protect server cannot be recovered for the IBM Storage Protect Plus client. The product needs a better resiliency mecanism to avoid the loss of that key.
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 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 ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Waiting for Winodws 2019 Server support for Spectrum protect server and BA client

We need Windows server 2019 server support for the Spectrum protect for the TSM server installation and BA client as well
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

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