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Storage Protect Family

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

    Prevend db2 abort within multiple backup streams

    If an error/abort occurs on one of the tape drives during a 6-stream db2 backup to tape, the entire backup is aborted by the db2. Please change the error behavior for db2 backups to resume with the remaining sessions to finish the backup job succe...
    8 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    More detailed error messages for SP-VE GUI interface

    When the VMware SSL cert is changed, SP-VE does not show any specific errors other than a generic network connection error. More detailed errors would be beneficial to SP customers.
    16 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

    Enable dynamically changing the language of server query output

    Currently, the server’s output language cannot be changed dynamically when issuing administrative query commands. To change the language, the server must be restarted after updating the LANGUAGE server option in dsmserv.opt. In terms of ACTLOG, pr...
    4 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Increase REST API max requests per second limit

    The limit is currently 3 requests per second. For clients with more than a couple environments running concurrently (snapshots, replication changes) this results in significant delays or even failures when using the REST API's.
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 3 Submitted

    make the ba-client scan a _single filesystem_ for new/changed/deleted files/dirs via parallel threads

    question: when will the ba-client be able to search through a _single filesystem_ for new/changed/deleted files/dirs via parallel threads? this feature is standard among most of ba-clients competitors and customers are asking for this frequently.
    about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    Data Protection for Mail compatibility with HCL Domino 14.5

    Domino released version 14.5 on June 17, 2025. As of today DP for Domino supports HCL Domino 14.0.x, but not 14.5.
    29 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1

    Allow Dynamic loading of TLS Certificates - do not require a halt and restart to take effect

    TLS Cert standards are shortening their max ttl. After March 15th 2026, the max TTL for a TLS Cert is 199 days. This will shorten to 100 days on March 15th, 2027 and to 47 days after March 15th, 2029.Other software has Dynamic Certificate Manageme...
    23 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 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...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

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