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Storage Protect Family

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Support for RHEL 9

Now when SPP is not going to be future develop and we need to run a VMware Backups using Dark Site software we falling back to IBM Storage Protect for VMware and we have test it on a RedHat Enterprise Server 9.2 and it works fine accept the servic...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

A function is required for directory container pools to balance the fill level of multiple storage pool directories

A function is required for directory container pools to balance the fill level of multiple storage pool directories, especially when an additional storagepool directory is added.Otherwise the Move Container scripts must be generated and started dy...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

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 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Allow more than 1450 characters into SQL statement used in reports section

Hello, Right now, we are limited to 1450 characters into an SQL statement when generating custom reports from Operation Center. This is an issue when the SQL statement is longer than that. I would like to have that limitation being removed. From t...
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Under review

We need application consistent Safeguarded Copy protect for SAP R/3

We have multiple customers that are still using SAP R/3 for a while before switching to SAP HANA. Since ERP is part of their minimum viable company, we need a way to safeguard this application.
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Under review

cert_distribute.sh should allow customers to input path to dsmcert.kdb file

In the current cert_distribute.sh implementations as level 8.1.21 and 8.1.22 it is not possible to specify the path to the dsmcert.kdb file. The cert_distribute.sh script has a logic searching for the dsmcert.kdb file (function getWindowsCertKDBPa...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

cert_distribute.sh script should allow customized new client cert file names

In the current implementations, the cert_distribute.sh shell script at levels 8.1.21 and 8.1.22 is using random file names for the newly created client cert (crt) file. For customer environments with multiple, maybe hundreds of Storage Protect ser...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

We would like to be able to backup AWS S3 buckets

We have many AWS S3 buckets that users update every day. Versioning is very expensive as there is no dedup/compression and this is especially true if you replicate across AWS regions. We would like to be able to backup and restore files to S3 like...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

Directory Container Erasure Coding

I have multiple smaller customers where we only have 1 Storage Protect server and are not using any tape to be able to run protect storage pool. This is little bit of a risk and also we put all our data in to one solution and if we get bad contain...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

Support immutable object storage with retention sets to object (retention pools)

Immutable object storage features, such as AWS Object Lock or COS Retention Vaults is supported for object/cloud container pools, but NOT supported for object retention pools. This request is to support immutable object storage for retention sets ...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

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