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TSM &HSM independently backup data & metadata

It is about making TSM (SpectrumProtect) and HSM ready to deal with large number of files and huge data pods by doing backup of data independently from meta data.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Vmware Backup Failure ANR messages do not display the actual hostname and of the datamover on all platforms.

Vmware Backup Failure ANR messages do not display the actual hostname and of the datamover on all platforms. ANE4174E Full VM backup of VMware Virtual Machine 'vmname' failed with RC=rc mode=full_or_incr, target node name='target_node_name', data ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Support for Azure Blob Immutable Storage

Cyber Resiliency of backup data using immutable storage needs to be possible using Azure Blob Immutable Storage, both in Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus, as both products are capable of storing data in Azure Blob storage.ICOS immutable ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Copy Data Manager Support for Oracle ACFS on AIX and Linux

Oracle's new filesystem implentation is called ACFS, taking over ASM. CDM supports virtual ACFS on Windows. Need to have support for physical filesystems on AIX and Linux supporting ACFS
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

access to the object is denied backup error does not fail a snapdiff backup.

Snapdiff backup shows completed successfully even when encountering ANS4007E access to the object is denied. This error should result if a backup failure. If access denied shows up at directory/volume level then no data may be backed up hence defe...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Limit SP client install to supported OS

According to SP client release notes page:https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21052226The client is OS requirement is AIX 7.1 or 7.2, however the installation proceeds without any error on AIX 6.1 / VIO 2.2.xStarting the scheduler ju...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center - Security granularity

IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center - Security granularity
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Dissimilar policies for node replication

When using node replication, it would be helpful to be able to specify dissimilar policies for local copies and remote copies.It should be easy to configure and maintain - also in large TSM environments, where ConfigMaster is being used for distri...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Node replication to multiple target servers

I thought this feature would be available in TSM server 7.1 but the following indicates otherwise. http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v7r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsm.srv.doc%2Fr_repl_restrictions.html Replication server configurationsA...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Glacier like Object Storage teiring in Tape. With compatibility with S3 API/Policies

A growing trend I ha e noticed in my domain is data ownership and residency. However, costs exponentially rise as data has grown due to a lack of understanding of what data is being stored (partially due o GDPR which protects against data being vi...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Future consideration