IBM Spectrum Protect Plus REST API ReferenceΒΆ

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a data protection solution that provides recovery, replication, retention, and reuse for virtual machines, databases, and containers in hybrid multicloud environments. It unlocks the value of your data by improving the quality and speed of development, testing, and analytics. Data retention, data compliance, and disaster recovery are achieved by copying or archiving data to both on-premises and cloud-based object storage and IBM Spectrum Protect, including support for the physical and virtual tape storage.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus offers an application programming interface (API) based on Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Representational State Transfer (REST) architecture. APIs using REST architecture and HTTP are often called REST APIs or RESTful APIs.

The REST API and related components comply with the industry standards for HTTP and REST architecture. Here is a list of documents defining those standards recommended by Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as Request for Comments (RFCs):

This publication provides information about the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus API based on the RESTful framework. Use the RESTful API to connect your applications to product components in order to query information about objects and to run basic operations by using HTTP protocols and the principles of RESTful API. This API uses RESTful architecture designed to interact with web-based applications in a simplified way, by using four basic HTTP methods: GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE.