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Storage Protect Family

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

TSM client & server support for CENTOS

Please support CENTOS as a platform for TSM server and client. All other major backup tools support CENTOS as a backup client or server architecture. You cannot stay behind. No support means for us undoubtedly abandoning the TSM (SP) platform.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Increse Blocksize Spectrum Protect is writing to Tape

Support bigger blocksize in Spectrum Protect Server than 256k or make it variable.For long distance Tape attachments latency become an issue which will dramatically decrease Tape Throughput.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Proxy Support for Spectrum Protect Operation Center

Possiblilty to configure Spectrum Protect Operation Center (hub instance) to use a http/https proxy server for downloading client packages used for the client autodeployment feature.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 5 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus ability to offload historical Data

We need the ability to offload historical data to ICOS.The customer had an environment backing up for approximately 12 months before ICOS was implemented and we started offloading.The customer wanted all its historical data offloaded to ICOS howev...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

TDP SQL GUI more efficient for search restore point in allwaysOn cluster

Configuration: AlwaysOn DB configured on TDP for database SQL with 11 instances (Active/Inactive) with more than 70 SQL databases with MMC. Problem: When selectively restoring inactive data for a particular database, it takes a long time, up to 45...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

Option to configure rsize parameter in Storage Copy Data Management for Spectrum Virtualize/Flashsystem

Currently Storage Copy Data Management creates FlashCopy target volumes on Spectrum Virtualize/Flashsystem devices launching the following command: mkvdisk -mdiskgrp <pool_name> -iogrp <io_grp_name> -size <size> -rsize 0% -autoex...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Easy change certificate on S3 storage agent

Today the S3 Agent certifikate is catched from the default certifikation on sp server at the the installation of s3 agent. It's not possible to add a new certifikate to the s3 agent certificate store. To change the certificate you must deinstall t...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

customize commandapproval commands

SP 'set commandapproval' doesn't allow to customize the predefined list of commands. Security needs are different from customer to customer.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

In SPP need the ability to backup local drives on clustered VMs that have non-unique UUIDs

The customer has a need to use SPP to backup Windows VMs that are clustered. Currently when they look at the drives under each cluster the C:\ drive only appears on one of the servers in the cluster. The reason for this is that each C:\ drive has ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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