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Storage Protect Family

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Backup of NFS file systems without mounting them.

Currently our customer use IBM Spectrum Protect in their on-premise archiving. They are in their journey to cloud and want to implement an archiving robust solution, so they started to evaluate multiple tools including IBM SP. They are requesting ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

IPv6 Support for NDMP

NDMP-Backup of NAS-Systems (CDOT CAB) not possible in IPv6-Only environment. Datamover creation can't resolve AAAA records, NAS Node needs v4 LIF to open connection to tape server. First step would be to tell the storage system only the DNS name o...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Certificate update message comes up

Following manual operation is required when "ANS1695E The certificate is not valid" as such. It is required to import Spectrum Protect server certificate (cert256.arm) and run dsmcert command to import it. If the backup archive client or dsmadmc ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Temporary AWS security credentials for S3 access

Spectrum Protect Plus currently only supports the use of permanent AWS access keys to access S3. This request is for support for access to S3 buckets with temporary AWS credentials. Spectrum Protect Plus should be able to support the rotation of a...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP Support for IBM Informix

Customer requests support for Informix in SPP. Our Customer is interested in the reuse feature because this is important for their business.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Ability to backup TOC objects to a Container pool.

There is an immediate need for the feature enhancement in Spectrum Protect to have the ability to backup TOCs to a Container pool besides current ability for backup server to collect and store file-level information in a table of contents (TOC) wh...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Connect to an AWS S3 bucket with an IAM Role

Our customer wants Spectrum Protect to be able to connect to an AWS S3 Bucket using an IAM Role without the need of the access key and the secret key. Today other products are able to do it.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

include a record in SPserver SUMMARY_EXTENDED for missed scheduled ( successful=no )

We need a single table to compute SLA , summary_extended seems to be the one to use. But we realized missed schedules are not included . they are in the events table.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

Option to enhance ANR3654W Inventory file expiration when not using replication

When you are using the policies on the target replication server to manage replicated client-node data, you must run expiration processing every 24 hours to allow the target replication server reuse storage pool space that is occupied by expired r...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Passwordless db2 upgrade

During IBM SP Server upgrade, from the version 8.1.11.0 DB2 SP instance credentials has to be validated due to DB2 major update.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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