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Storage Protect Family

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SnapDiff-Support for ONTAP 9.18

Could you please add Snapdiff support for ONTAP version 9.17 and 9.18? https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/154613
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Planned for future release

IBM Storage Protect™ for Mail: Data Protection for HCL Domino® 8.1.22 supports valid HCL Domino update the product to support the HCL Domino 14.5 version which was release back in June 2025..

Being able to running the backup. Anyone who has HCL Domino 14.5 or planning to upgrade.
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Planned for future release

DP for mail support for domino 14.5

In our environment we're currently upgrading from Domino 12 to Domino 14, and for a number of servers there is a need to go directly to Domino 14.5. This due to several CVE's in earlier version: https://support.hcl-software.com/csm?id=kb_article&a...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Planned for future release

TDP support for SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 8 for SLES on Power

TDP for ERP 8.1.11 supports only SAP HANA 2.0 SPS7. Support for SPS8 needed, which is availible since Nov 2024.
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Planned for future release

Support current versions of Storage Scale in the Storage Protect for Space management client for Linux. Currently this would be Scale 5.2.2.x and 5.2.3.x.

This would benefit all Storage Protect for Space management customers who are also Storage Scale System customers, or who use Storage Scale and want to run up to date versions of Scale. The latest version of Storage Protect for Space management cl...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Planned for future release

Upgrade of ISP4VE 8.1.23 to 8.1.23.x deletes key.jks truststore

The upgrade from ISP4VE 8.1.23.0 to 8.1.23.x deletes the C:\IBM\SpectrumProtect\webserver\usr\servers\veProfile\resources\security\key.jks truststore file and the steps which are documented in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spfve/8.1.23?topic=cssdpv-...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Planned for future release

New client/API interface

Make a new client interface for data communication on SP-server. Which can support new functionality and to which ALL new clients will use. Clients can then have: * Auto upgrade clients, option in server and node* Better agent, functionality* And ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Support for native velero backup to Storage Protect using the S3 Object Agent

In case of a non-OpenShift container environment, native Velero implementation can be used to backup containerized applications. Velero is able to write the backups to an S3 target, for which the Object Agent from the Storage Protect can be used.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Planned for future release

Support for HCL Domino Server 14

HCL Domino Server 14 has been available for some time now. The Storage Protect Agent for Mail/Domino does not yet support this version. Since we and various other customers are due to update their HCL Domino servers to version 14, I would like to ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Planned for future release

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...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release