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Automated Restore for Spectrum Protect family of products

Spectrum Protect is lacking any functionality which can automatically verify backup copies, whether they have been created using the BA client, TDP agents or Spectrum Protect Plus. Since Cristie pulled support for SP4VE from their Recovery Simulat...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Need larger DB2 active log file size

While working on HADR, a DB2 specialist noted that DB2 under SP was archiving the active log at a higher than normal rate and recommended increasing the current DB2 LOGFILSIZ to make it ten (10) times larger. However, the customer was unable to ma...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

Add support for SNI in TLS handshake when using TLS/SSL

When using SSL/TLS from clients, the handshake towards the server should include SNI in order to better support centralized certificate management when using e.g. SSL offloading hosts RFC 6066 specifies:It is RECOMMENDED that clients include an ex...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum protect, official support for RedHat 8

Hi. There is a need to use RedHat 8 servers. Lacking support for backups on Spectrum Protect
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

TSM does not start Migrations properly

TSM-Server does not start any new Migrations if there is still 1 Migration running from the previous "reaching HiMig".Example1. HiMig reached = 8 migrations started for diskpool2. Migrations running an decreasing utilisation of pool3. LoMig reache...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Node Replication & DR - Enable client backup to the Target TSM Server

Enable the BA/TDP clients to send backup data to the target server in case of a failure of the primary server (node replication enabled)
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Optimize HSM file scan logic to prevent recall and re-backup of stub files after file move.

At Present, when a HSM stub file is moved, a subsequent TSM backup recalls the file and backs this up again. This is a huge problem in large HSM installations and causes significant issues for the administrators supporting the system, and IBM supp...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Configurable block size for tape

We have a tape library about 50km away from the managing SP server; connected over fibre. Due to the nature of the FC protocol for tape drives (strictly serial acknowledgement) and the latency, a single data stream gets limited to around 120MBps, ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

Support for GFS2 file systems

Support for GFS2 file systems. Customer tested the backup and restore of GFS2 FileSystems and the attributes are not restored. Then, the current solution is not valid
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

additional status "MAINTENANCE" for drives and paths

Drives and paths only the both status' ONLINE and OFFLINE. An additional one "MAINTENANCE" or "OFFLINE asap" would be extremely useful for the preparation of maintenance (especially unplanned due to an error) to get a library free of accesses.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration