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Storage Protect Family

117 VOTE

Enabling parallel I/O when migrating date from file-pool to tape-pool due to synchronous sequential write

With a traditional Storage Protect implementation with backup to file-pool the migragtion from file-pool to tape-pool is limited on disk latency to reach optimized a high throuhgput on tape. For an example with a disc latency of 2ms you can reach ...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2025 with IBM Storage Protect for Virtual Environments Application Protection

One of our customers backs up their Microsoft SQL Server environments using IBM Storage Protect for Virtual Environments Application Protection. Unfortunately, Microsoft SQL Server 2025 is not supported by the current ISP for VE version 8.2.2 with...

Remove SQL Server 2016 PowerShell Extensions, SMO and CLR Types dependency from DP for SQL

IBM Data Protection for Microsoft SQL Server (DP for SQL) currently requires Microsoft SQL Server 2016 prerequisite components, including: Microsoft SQL Server 2016 System CLR Types Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Management Objects (SMO) Windows PowerS...
19 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Submitted

Enable NDMP NAS Restore to Alternate Filer Without Modifying Production Datamover Configuration

Background / Context The customer currently, restoring NDMP NAS backups to an alternate NetApp filer requires modifying the production datamover configuration (IP address and drive path). As documented in the IBM technote: https://www.ibm.com/supp...

Provide a supported method to migrate retention sets, including all associated metadata and retention information, between IBM Storage Protect servers (e.g., AIX to Linux), enabling customers to decommission legacy environments

Product Enhancement Request (RFE) Title Provide a Supported Retention Set Migration Capability Between IBM Storage Protect Servers Why is this useful? Organizations commonly use IBM Storage Protect retention sets to satisfy long-term regulatory, l...
14 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

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...
14 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Request for Enhancement – Detailed Backup Object Metadata in IBM Storage Protect Server

Description: Currently, the Backup‑Archive Client (dsmc query backup -detail or GUI) displays Last Modified Date, Last Accessed Date, Backup Date, and file attributes of the backup object. However, the IBM Storage Protect server (e.g., BACKUPS tab...
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 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...
20 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Support S3 Glacier FR for Cloud-Container Pool

Request Storage Protect Server to support S3 Glacier Flexible retrieval (FR) / IBM Storage Deep Archive for cloud container pool. Current support for Glacier FR for copy retention set require a stage to restore and is inefficient.
8 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