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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Central gui for agents

New GUI that you can install on a machine and then use to add all your backup agents, and where you can centrally manage backup/options/restore, and maybe even read log files.
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Update Cloudstoragepool to make it immutable.

Hello Currently S3 immutable and immutable COS is supported but its only with define stgpool but its not supported do update current stgpool to make it immutable. Since S3 allow changes now, can we please have an update stgpool with enabledatalock?
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Show various command line options and/or help options for dsmserv using -h or --help flag

The proposal is provide -h or --help option for storage protect server command line. Storage Protect Server can be started with various options. Currently the user has to go through SP documentation to know these options, as the command line does ...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Querying actlog with option MSGNO can only be done with one argument, this should be extendend to use more arguments

The search in Actlog with the msgno option should be extended so that it is possible to search for several message numbers. For example, msgno=0293,0294 should be possible in a query so that you can see the start and end of an action, therefore yo...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Improvement of usability by implementing a HOST command in dsmadmc

By using a HOST command or special character, commands can be issued at operating system level and you do not have to log out of dsmadmc.
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

ISP code should be able to handle the same input/output volume when multiple parallel reclamation processes need access to the volume

When using the following stgpool configuration with ISP there is a limitation torun parallel reclamation for multiple tape pools within the setup: 1. protect stgpool container_archive_prim --> copy_container_archive_prim2. stgrule copy containe...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Official support for DB2 HADR in Spectrum Protect Server

Although it is easy to find IBM documents recommending DB2 HADR as a replication solution for Spectrum Protect Server database (f.i. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6212198) it is not oficially supported. For this reason these products are ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Error handling for failed node replication - ANR1893E and ANR3824W

Since ISP 8.1.14 we always see this error messages in the log - and monitoring system - for node replication, because some files are skipped. The reason for the skipped files is, that database log backups always occur during the replication. This ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Prevent data moving processes starting up when expire inventory is running

Since expire inventory needs to be running more or less alone, preventing other datamoving tasks from running could reduce amount of failures to the DB tables that would render future expire inventory run into errors. Maybe something like this ex...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Select All function in search result of BAClient GUI for NAS restore

Select All function in search result of BAClient GUI for NAS restore
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration