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    Reclaim database space

    I know that Storage Protect automatically does some database maintenance operations, such as reorganization. It would also be useful do do some equivalent of db2 "ALTER TABLESPACE LARGESPACE1 REDUCE MAX" (and/or the same for other tablespaces), to...
    8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Needs more information

    dsmserv maintenance does not disable storage rules

    Starting the SP server in maintenance mode is a helpful vehicle after software updates and problem determination phases. It disables all internal server processing and client sessions except of preventing storage rules being executed. Disabling st...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Needs more information

    IBMTOOLs update VEHAUDIT report 4 digit year

    I know IBM is working on updated IBMTOOLs libraries. I would like to see the dates expanded in the IBMTOOLs report VEHAUDIT so it has a 4 digit year. Thank you.
    3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 4 Needs more information

    insert more than two media categories/types for logical volumes

    Today there are only two media categories available for defining logical volumes in an IBM VTS - Media Type Cartidge System Tape and Enhanced Cartridge. But you can define the volumes as 400MB, 800MB, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB and 25GB in the library. Since w...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Needs more information

    Change behaviour of "move nodedata" command so that when the destination storage pool has a copy storage pool setup data is moved to both primary and copy storage pools

    Being able to "move nodedata" to both a destination storage pool and its copy storage pool would be useful to maintain at least to copies of the data when moving data. Using the backup storage pool command can sync both source and copy storage poo...
    8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

    Implement the cancel reclaim command

    At this moment, it's not possible to cancel a reclamation process through ISP scripting. The only option you have is to do this outside of the server with OS scripts. These scripts first have to retrieve the process number of running reclaim proce...
    11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Needs more information

    Enforce HSTS in TS7700

    TS7700 Web GUI is not enforcing HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security), which allows downgrade attacks, SSL-stripping man-in-the-middle attacks and weakens cookie-hijacking protections. It should be either enforced by default or it should be possib...
    7 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Needs more information

    Add Auto deploy option in client option sets

    The idea is to manage AUTODEPLOY YES/NO/NO REBOOT on clien option set level.
    9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

    Add support for Google Cloud Storage buckets defined with Customer Managed Encryption keys

    Support for Google Cloud Storage (GCS) as a cloud container pool is currently restricted to using Google Managed Keys (GMK) for encryption on the buckets on the Google side. The use of Customer Managed Keys (CMS) is a common mandatory requirement ...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

    Better Information for Storage Rule

    If we run any Storage rule like Replication or Tiering of data between pools and we see it failed of some reasons. A natural way to investigate a issue is to run the same command manually using wait=yes and in that way get more information, but ve...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Needs more information

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