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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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

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...
24 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

AlwaysOn Servermon lslv lspv AIX commands need to be changed to prevent hang situations

Today, the Storage Protect server AlwaysOn Servermon issues the following commands to gather information about AIX logical and physical volumes: lsvg -o | lsvg -illsvg -o | lsvg -ip lspv -l ... in a loop for all hdisks. We request to add -L option...
about 1 month 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

Storage Protect server encryption for sequential file storage pools

The Storage Protect server allows to use sequential file as a storage pool. The Storage Protect server does not allow to enable Storage Protect server internal encryption for sequential file. For security reasons, user data stored on Storage Prote...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Storage Protect server compression for sequential file storage pools

The Storage Protect server allows to use sequential file as a storage pool. The Storage Protect server does not allow to enable Storage Protect server internal compression for sequential file. To safe disk space utilized by a Storage Protect serve...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

It could be nice to have an option like maxsessionspernode in replicate node

The maxsession option in replicate node is for all node (when using with a nodegroup). So when a run a "replicate node maxsession=20" it could have up to 20 sessions for the last node, so it could have up to 20 filling volumes in the distant node....
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Query for expiry date of cloud connection token

Query for expiry date of cloud connection token. Currently only notification but need query to know when its getting expire.
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

possibility to add clients by nodegroup to copy storage subrule

Currently you can only add single clients to a copy storage subrule . It would be comfortable to also have the possibility to add clients by nodegroup as an additional choice - like you can do with "def retrule".
2 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...
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

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