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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Additional Replication IP for Secondary Server beside high level address and low level address

Secondary server has 2 IPs but we can only specify 1 hl address when server is defined on primary server. Because of that all clients for which replication is enabled, want to use the HL address to perform backups when called for. Ultimately would...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

DECOMMISSION NODE' is not updating RETENTION RULE

Retrule contains decom vm nodes which result in failed retention set copy.Decommission node do not update retention rule so that every decomission node action requires a manual maintenance for the retention rule
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Is a defect

Provide a way to show running TSM scripts and to cancel them

Currently there is now way to show which TSM scripts have been startet and furthermore they cannot be stopped. The only way to finish a script prematurely is to cancel every process that is startet by the script or to define exit conditions such a...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Improve NQR Performance

When doing an NQR on Nodes with tens of millions of files, the initial TSM database search and sort operation which takes place on the server takes several hours. We noticed that the hardware resource utliziation (CPU, DB2 Disks) is not very high ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Operations Center timeout

In Operations Center we would like to see an option to set a time out level for the OC, where after a set period of time (in our case 15 minutes) of inactivity, meaning you have not clicked or refreshed your web page, you are sent back to the logi...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM is not supproted on p7 except in p6 compatibility mode

TSM on p7 hardware requires that you run the LPAR in p6 compatibility mode. This is a Java/DB2 limitation during the install or upgrade. This limitation should be fixed as it nullifies the reason for migrating to better/faster hardware. http://www...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Command to release a PENDING volume to SCRATCH

When a tape library has used all its scratch volumes, the admin needs to make some tapes available to keep operations running. If there are no tapes that can be checked in, a possibility is to free up some already empty volumes in PENDING state. T...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Full Active Directory Intergration

Full Active Directory Integration as a single signon solution
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Ability to specify Node replication parameters on each node

To increase security in the node replication feature, we would like to have the option to specify the target TSM server IP, Port, Nodename and Nodepassword on individual nodes - instead of global settings, which requires server-to-server communica...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM Terabyte Front End Capacity Calculator - needs to be reworked for VE

Please see mentioned PMR. Calculation of front end capacity for TSM for Virtual Environments is wrong, in my opinion. The results differ wildly depending on if the customer uses thin or thick disks and if there happen to be snapshots, for example....
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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