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Storage Protect Family

    Provide IBM-supported tool to migrate Retention Sets, including all associated metadata and retention policies, from IBM Storage Protect to IBM Data Defender (Cohesity), enabling complete decommissioning of legacy Storage Protect environments.

    Product Enhancement Request: Retention Set Migration Tool Title Retention Set Migration from IBM Storage Protect to IBM Data Defender (Cohesity) Why is this useful? Many organizations use IBM Storage Protect retention sets to meet regulatory and b...
    27 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Support creating Copy-Container pools to VTL instead of physical tape only

    Customers do have VTL instead of physical tape in use, VTL is used as disaster recovery media. Customer plans to ingest Object Data (IBM Fusion) via S3 Object Agent to a Disk Container Storage Pool. Protection of a Disk Container Storage Pool is p...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

    Introduce new option for replication to allow replication to process new data and backlog data separate and when process backlog data ( replicating_objects) we need to introduce tape optimization

    Customer has > 500million objects on tape sitting on replicating_objects which doesn't have replication copy on target. In order to catch up the backlog, we may need to introduce new options to allow replication to process new data and backlog ...
    10 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Extension of the character limit for management class names

    A customer operate under a policy of assigning a unique management class to each node.By including the node name in the management class name, it is possible to identify which management class corresponds to which node.Currently, management class ...
    6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Warning message needed for deleting any data storage in object lock storage in cloud in IBM storage Protect server

    Current behavior: ISP allows deletion actions (e.g., DELETE FILESPACE) even when target data is stored in a cloud container storage pool with Object Lock. Risk: Admins can mistakenly remove catalog references while the cloud objects remain undel...
    6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Automate vCenter certificate import into Data Protection for VMware GUI truststore during Installation/Upgrade

    Starting from Data Protection for VMware 8.1.23 and later, administrators must manually perform additional post-installation/post-upgrade configuration to establish trusted communication between the Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUI and VMwar...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

    official statement that included software can't be updated independant

    We see many security issues concerning components of Storage Protect software. Most of them come from the Storage Protect Server (mostly JAVA and DB2). But the Storage Protect Client and TDP4VE are also affected (with log4j). And the same issues e...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    DB2 backups failover S3 in the verification step using SP

    We got stuck with TS022932200.When backing up DB2 backup and restore works but not the verification.The verification step can be omitted: use DB2_OBJECT_STORAGE_SETTINGS=DisableETagValidation to skip this ETag problem.We would like the qualit...
    12 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Request for Warning Message in Activity Log for Cloud Connection SAS Token Expiration

    Current Behaviour: The IBM Storage Protect server does not generate activity log events related to cloud connection SAS token expiration. Risk: No access to the cloud blob storage will occur once the SAS token expires, resulting in backup and rest...
    6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Query mount option to allow filtering for library name

    We have multiple Storage Protect library manager servers which manage multiple logical TS4500 libraries with more than 100 drives. In such large environments it is not useful that QUERY MOUNT is showing mounts of all libraries in one output. For e...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

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