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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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A higher level of algorithm customization is required for adding (or removing) commands for SP "command approval" requests.

In the current version, it is only possible to enable or disable multiple confirmation of changes in the SP server via a list of commands defined by IBM development. It is not possible to select, remove, or add commands that are important to the c...
30 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

Add parallelism when replicating data stored on tape

When using node replication with data stored on tape, the SP replication process is single threaded. This means that only a single tape drive will be used when replicating a node even if there are many free/available tape drives in the tape librar...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

SP Server certificate management

Signed certificates gets shorter lifetime (down to 3 months), and intermediate ca (typically 2 years now) gets shorter and shorter lifetime. This adds lots of work for certificate management on SP servers. We can script most of it (create request,...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Non-blocking Storage Protect server audit library

Today, when a Storage Protect server requires to run AUDIT LIBRARY on a SCSI library, all Storage Protect server activities on that SCSI library needs to be stopped. Means, processes and sessions already using the SCSI library its tape drives need...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Lock a SP client node and all its backup and archive data to prevent changes and deletions

In case of a ransom ware attack, customer immediately locks affected Storage Protect Client nodes to prevent attacked nodes from accessing the Storage Protect server. This is done to prevent changes to the Storage Protect clients backup and to pre...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Enable Storage Protect server to write its database backups to two sites in parallel

For redundancy reasons, customers operate and replicate Storage Protect servers and user data in/ between multiple sites.A Storage Protect server is able today, to write user data ingested into the Storage Protect server to two storage pools in pa...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Add an expiration date when using DECOMMISSION VM or DECOMMISSION NODE

Hello! Having the possibility to enter a date (not mandatory) when decomissioning a vm or node will be very helpful. Most of my users told me to decommission a VM, but asking to keep its backup for a longer period than the associated management cl...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

"dsmadmc -tab" should escape tabs in output fields

The -tab option to dsmadmc is useful for passing output to other applications for parsing. Unfortunately, dsmadmc does not escape tabs in the output, which means that tools that expect tabs to be used only as column separators will incorrectly spl...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Execute file rights need to be removed from AlwaysOn Servermon configuration files

For security reasons, execute file rights need to be removed from all AlwaysOn Servermon configuration files. IBM support confirmed that the execute file rights are not required and can be removed. Example: /opt/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/servermon# ls...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

Allow repair stg to use any storage pool from target replication server to recover data

Configuration: Replica source Storage is container pool only Copy pool exist on tape Replica target Storage is container pool with tiering to tape or S3 after X days Copy pool exist on tape Scenario When the source detects a bad file/object with a...
26 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

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