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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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    Include AWS root CA in SP managed Java Key Store

    AWS has historically supported Starfield Class 2 certificate, which was part of Java packages since 2004. IBM SP Java contains that in its JKS, and it worked fine till 2025. By the end of 2025, AWS stopped the use of Starfield C2 certificate and t...
    about 4 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Import the data from tape and sequential volumes, written from other IBM Storage Protect servers

    Why is it useful? This feature will help with restoring/retrieving data from the tapes, which may have expired in database and also if the tapes are owned/written by other SP server. Who will benefit from it? This feature will help in DR tests, wh...
    19 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    have supported way to easily clone a SP instance

    If customers wish to build a standard protect instance template, it cannot easily be cloned to deploy multiple protect servers. For example, each SP server has a "viewable" identity (server name), but also several hidden identifiers (unique ID # i...
    3 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    need ability to view the dsm.opt file on a windows system and be able to add/subtract entries from the TSM server (spectrum protect)

    need ability to view the dsm.opt file on a windows system and be able to add/subtract entries from the TSM server (spectrum protect) This would be useful because many people cannot login to windows world if they are unix admins and manage the aix ...
    4 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    A higher level of algorithm customization is required for adding (or removing) commands for SP "command approval" requests.

    In the current version, it is only possible to enable or disable multiple confirmation of changes in the SP server via a list of commands defined by IBM development. It is not possible to select, remove, or add commands that are important to the c...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

    Support incremental data transfer to cloud archive target (not require full retention set).

    Currently, the only way to send data to a cloud archive target (S3 Glacier, IBM Cloud archive or accelerated archive) is to create a retention pool and then send a retention set. When using the cloud archive target, the retention set is always a f...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    To use S3 (or Blob) object storage without tsm deduplication as primary storage pools.

    We want to use S3 (or Blob) object storage without tsm deduplication, as similar as for DEFINE STGPOOL (Define a retention storage pool) with cloud device class, but for normal primary stgpool. Compression and encryption should be possible, but wi...
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    new command to q options which differ from their default value

    There are many options available for the SP server, documented as well as many undocumented server options. All have default values, some/many are adapted to specific environments. A new command would be helpful which displays all the options whic...
    8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Under review

    Support for Ontap 9.17.1 /9.18.1

    The support for Ontap 9.16.1 runs out in 31. Januar 2028. The support for Ontap 9.15.1 on 31. Juli 2027. So only 1,5 or 2 years left. Please support more current releases
    17 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0
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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.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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