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Storage Protect Family

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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...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Under review

Enable Storage Protect backup archive client testflag SKIPDATEMISMATCHWARNING for restore and retrieve

In a replication failover scenario, the Storage Protect backup/ archive client is comparing the local stored last backup/ archive date with the date stored on the Storage Protect server. If the local date is older than the date stored on the Stora...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Under review

Show various command line options and/or help options for dsmserv using -h or --help flag

The proposal is provide -h or --help option for storage protect server command line. Storage Protect Server can be started with various options. Currently the user has to go through SP documentation to know these options, as the command line does ...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Ransomware detection functionality for IBM Storage Protect.

IBM Storage Protect should provides a way to detect possible ransomware attack on backed-up and/or archived data. While I believe the best solution is to employ IBM Storage Insights to provide such functionality because IBM Storage Virtualize on I...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Remote monitoring functionality for the IBM Storage Protect instances to avoid storage capacity shortages and address performance issues

IBM Storage Protect should provides a way to remotely monitor its insataces to storage capacity shortages and address performance issues. While I believe the best solution is to employ IBM Storage Insights to monitor capacity and performance stati...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 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 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

configure SP API so that traffic uses client-side encryption without an explicit call from the API client

Customers require the ability to secure data from storage protect/spectrum protect server administrative staff. Currently, this can only be done by enabling client-side encryption. For API clients, encryption is only enabled if the client software...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration
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Provide Support for Tiering to Tape for Spectrum Protect Plus Data

Spectrum Protect does not allow Data from Spectrum Protect Plus getting tiered from Container Pool to Tape, at current only Tiering to a Cloud Pool, but only to cloud storage classes that support the rapid recall of data.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Add security certificate expiration date to "query status" output

Current options for viewing security certificate include an actlog entry when the server is started and an option to toggle on an ANR message for every session. Having the expiration date in the query status output would make an easy way for custo...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

dsmserv maintenance does not disable storage rules

Starting the SP server in maintenance mode is a helpful vehicle after software updates and problem determination phases. It disables all internal server processing and client sessions except of preventing storage rules being executed. Disabling st...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Needs more information

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