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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Add wait=yes to audit command

We would like to have a "wait=yes" option to the audit volume command. I think this should be done since audit container has this option.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Metadata tags cannot be added/associated to Filespaces in Spectrum Protect

Metadata tags cannot be added/associated to Filespaces in Spectrum Protect
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Data Retention - restrict interaction with node data to node user

We use Spectrum Protect whit Data Retention enabled to store archive data.nobody besides the application should be able to delete single files that are stored in spectrum protect. We work with event based retention. If the event is set from the ap...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

default custom ID required on Spectrum Protect Server Install

Currently a new built of TSM server 8.1 does not create the "admin/admin" ID like it was done with 5.5 versions. THis creates a problem with build automation where it requires a extra step to register a ID adding to build time.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect and Open LDAP

A lot of customer use an openLDAP to secure their IT and enforce all application to use it.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

ANR2034E should be INFO and not ERROR

It's annoying that there's an error logged just because I ran query mount and nothing was mounted (maybe that was a good thing). This is how it currently looks on one of our servers, 184644 counts of ANR2034E, second place is 938. That's a lot of ...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Tag/Label backup sessions as well as backup/archive records.

Because of the Spectrum Protect way to register the backups/archive, it is challenging to track the backups.  For example, when customers lunch a multi-thread backup (DB, Files, Mail, VM), it is difficult to identify what kind of backup it is...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

Customer-managed encryption keys with KJM support in GCP Buckets

Why is it useful? Enabling CMEK support with KMS for GCP buckets provides Enhanced Security, Compliance Requirements, Key Rotation and Management, Data Sovereignty Who would benefit? Banking Customers, Customers with strict encryption requirements...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Allow individual NDMP backups to be deleted with a new "delet nasbackup" command

At present only the following methods can be used to delete NDMP backups in Spectrum Protect 1. Altering the copygroup settings for the management class in the policy domain which the NDMP backups are bound to and allowing expiration to run.2. Del...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect - Add functionality to the deactivate data command

Expand the deactivate data command to apply to other clients besides Oracle. It is urgently needed for SQL backup clients. The deactivate data command should be expanded to work on SQL, DB2, Informix, and all other API-style backup products.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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