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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Allow copy storage rules to select only active data AND to allow selection of from-date and to-date for copy to tape in fully hydrated tape copies.

This is useful because starting from scratch and trying to copy multiple inactive as well as the active copy of extremely large data backups (for example Epic databases) to tape for hydrated copies takes an extremely long time. The library is unav...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

ANR2836E Policy creation failed because no storage pool is available in which to save client deployment packages.

Since I upgraded to ISP Version 8.1.7 I get the following errors: 15:01:47 ANR2836E Policy creation failed because no storage pool is available in which to save client deployment packages.15:01:47 ANR2837E The creation of the IBM_DEPLOY_CLIENT pol...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Support for Cloud Containers (such as COS/Cleversafe) from Linux on Power

Currently we have clients moving from old Power 7 boxes to new Power 8 boxes who want to start a new TSM server on Linux In addition clients are keen on COS/Cleversafe for more than just TSM. The lack of Cloud Container support from Linux on Power...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Disable the necessary SMB V1 to install product of TSM throught Installation Manager

Install Tivoli Storage Manager products using the Installation Manager it is necessary to have enable the SMB1 protocol.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 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?
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM Node replication should report warning instead of failure when associated node cannot be replicated

TSM 7.1.x reports a replication failure when a client node that has been setup for replication has an associated node which is not setup for replication or is a Receive Node. Replication succeeds, but process result is FAILURE, which is not the ca...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Mount retention for sequential file volumes

Currently, mount retention is disable for sequential file device classes. In many cases in real-world use, this can cause a storm of mount/unmount operations if any migration, reclamation, backup, or restore processes rapidly cycle between a handf...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Cancel process ALL

Add extra Cancel Process options - Cancel Process ALL- Cancel pro migration (or cancel migration)- Cancel pro backup (or cancel backup) For each process name a Cancel command. Cancel Expiration and Cancel Export already exists.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

ReFS and S2D support for Spectrum Protect server on Windows

The IBM Spectrum Protect server installation on Windows does currently not support the resiliant filesystem (ReFS) from Microsoft as underlying filesystem due to restrictions of supported filesystems for the DB2 database. The Spectrum Protect team...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

cache for directory container pools

it will be great to have a cache for directory container pool in order to temporary store the data received and then migrate them to directory container. using faster disks like ssd as a temp pool will significant improve backup and replication sp...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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