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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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More flexibility in assigning rights to administrators

In large/complex environments with multiple people having administrative access to the Spectrum Protect server, it is desirable to be able to have better granularity on the rights assigned to each person/login or group. This is in order to be able...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Make the time interval for "ANR3654W Inventory file expiration processing did not run in the previous 24 hours" configurable

The message ANR3654W is shown even if an expire inventory schedule was executed every day at 4pm, because the detailed time frame including seconds is checked for the message. The request is either check not on detailed second (maybe a minute or 5...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Enable wildcards on storage pools and node names on DEDUPSTATS commands

Enable usage of wildcards and/or nodegroups on storage pools and node names on the commands: GENERATE DEDUPSTATSDELETE DEDUPSTATSQUERY DEDUPSTATS
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

fix column widths in dsmadmc interactive screen output

When using dsmadmc for SP management, the screen output quality looks often still like from previous century. Especcially number columns are often too narrow even when there is plenty of console width still available. This leads to wrapped numbers...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Node Replication Status

When a node fails to replicate, it is nearly impossible to determine why it failed. You have to open a PMR and gather logs and usually have to bring in level II support. This is a big waste of both my and IBM supports' time.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Allow for more than 1 concurrent expiration processes

A further expiration process can't be started if already an expiration process is running. Customer have 4 windows cluster systems with a huge system state. Expiration for these client nodes run a couple of days.This prevents a daily expiration pr...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Add support for TSM Server instances to be managed by systemd on Linux.

We require support for TSM Server instances to be properly managed by systemd on Linux. This would require the creation and distribution of a proper service unit file.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Add support for client encryption on deduplicated data

Support of client specified encryption (password) is needed for client side deduplication. This feature is desired to cover all types of clients from IBM - Backup-Archive, TSM4VE, TDP for SQL, TDP for mail and so on.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

audit container markdamaged needs to update inventory objects as damaged

Any process that marks extents damaged should queue a process to mark those objects damaged which rely on the extents. AUDIT CONTAINER ACTION=MARKDAMAGED only marks extents damaged, so inventory objects stay not-damaged. Even later, if they are ac...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

enhance command line output

The text screen output from commands entered in dsmadmc should be enhanced. Many columns are too small and cause wrapping already for relatively short common values, making it hard to read. On the other hand, much space is wasted by separating col...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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