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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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New client/API interface

Make a new client interface for data communication on SP-server. Which can support new functionality and to which ALL new clients will use. Clients can then have: * Auto upgrade clients, option in server and node* Better agent, functionality* And ...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Support for native velero backup to Storage Protect using the S3 Object Agent

In case of a non-OpenShift container environment, native Velero implementation can be used to backup containerized applications. Velero is able to write the backups to an S3 target, for which the Object Agent from the Storage Protect can be used.
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Planned for future release

Support for RHEL9 for Storage Protect Server

RHEL 8 is more than 5 years old. RHEL 9 was already released more than 2 years ago (was officially released on May 17, 2022), It would be a good idea to add it as Operating System for Storage Protect Server.
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Server Support for RHEL9

Currently RHEL 9.x has been GA for almost a year and is not supported for Storage Protect Server, forcing the use of ageing RHEL 8.x. Many orgs have a requirement to maintain software currency and would like to get their RHEL8->9 projects under...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Proactive alert on backup policy change or modify in IBM spectrum protect server for prod

To avoid data loss, IBM spectrum protect to Alert or warn proactively on the production server
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Spectrum protect with java version 11

The latest version of the Java that is supported with the SP for VE and the server is version 8 which means that Java version 11 is not supported as it hasn't been tested. But our customer is planning to remove Java 8 on all the servers across the...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 12 Planned for future release

Lack of integration with IBM Spectrum Protect

Lack of an integration between IBM Spectrum Protect (SP) and IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management (CDM) using Pure Storage. Lack of this functionality is a major road block to deploy/adoption a supported combination of Pure, CDM and SP solution.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect on LinuxOne with RHEL 8.x

LinuxOne is proposing for Oracle database consolidation, Spectrum Protect is a key component to provide data backup and recovery. The compatibility of Spectrum Protect on LinuxOne with RHEL 8.x is essential for the proposal.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Planned for future release

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...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Requesting Support for 2-Factor Authentication with Spectrum Protect

As backup data is a primary tool used to recover from ransomware, ensuring the highest level of security surrounding the protection of TSM / Spectrum Protect data has been highlighted by Information Security. Having administrative accounts which h...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

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