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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Spectrum Protect - Retention Lock for retention sets

System: Spectrum Protect Server - all platformsActor: User needing new function Description: Request to develop a new feature which can lock a retention set from being deleted prior to its set expiry day. The feature can be termed as "Retention Lo...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

Verify Management Class Contraints on Node Migration

When moving/migrating a TSM node from one TSM domain to another, and in the target TSM domain the management class used in the source does not exist in its policiy definitions, the default management class is used. The fall back to the default man...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

cert_distribute.sh script should allow customers to input a list of client nodes

In the current implementations, the cert_distribute.sh shell script at levels 8.1.21 and 8.1.22 queries the Storage Protect server for all its Storage Protect client nodes, does some filtering to select only supported platforms, and then will asso...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Tagging Node and Data

We see more and more situations where specific nodes or filespaces need to have different functions such Retention Set, Replication to multiple servers or protect to tape and this is a big hazel to mange where we have try both with Node Groups, de...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Spectrum Protect Data Retention should be able to delete Copy Storage Pool Volumes

In Spectrum Protect Data Retention it is not possible to delete any data manually, which is the key functionality of the product.In case of duplicating the data stored (i.e. on tape) we use Copy Storage Pools. To allow an exchange of the underlyin...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

Containerpool Backup to File Device Class

Add support for backup of Directory Container Pools to Copypools using File Device Class.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 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.
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

maxruntime parameter does not honor admin schedules with wait=yes

The maxruntime parameter could not be used for administrative schedules where processes with wait=yes are started. APAR IT21651 documents the behavior.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect - Copy Retention Sets to Azure Archive Layer

Customer is looking to use the Copy Retention Sets to Cloud as introduced in 8.1.13. They have an existing storage agreement with Azure and so will be using this. Noted that the release includes support for Archive Storage in both AWS and IBM Clou...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

External storage level immutability integration in application level

Currently there is a workaround provided by Dell to present Data Domain DD Boost storage units as BoostFS mount points and eventually storage pool to Storage Protect server. In this way, one can take advantage of high deduplication rate, encryptio...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

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