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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Change QUERY OCCUPANCY to show the number of files backed up for each node/filespace in a directory container storage pool.

Currently QUERY OCCUPANCY returns the number of 10GB fragments associated with each file/object. So if a file is 54GB in size it will report this under QUERY OCCUPANCY six files; where five fragments occupy 10GB, and one as 4GB. As a customer the ...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

release empty volumes on migration process

In Spectrum Protect the data are stored on the primary storage pool. if filled up, a migration process is triggered to move the data to the next storage pool (e.g. from disk to tape). This migration process creates a list of volumes of the primary...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Create 'Retention set on Tape' for SQL and DB2

Creating Retention sets on tape are only possible for TDP Vmware/Hyper-V and BAclient; we would like the capability to be extended to DB2 and SQL as well. ANR1017E UPDATE RETRULE: File space SQLREP\SQL02\meta\0000 that belongs to node SQL01N1_SQL ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

SP Generate Dedupstats by filespace for datacenter nodes

Scheduled dedupstats only run one process per node. This is fine for many node types, but in datacenters with 1000 nodes, it can result in a single process running for a week or two, while all of the other processes have completed.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Functionality already exists

Requesting Support for 2-Factor Authentication with Spectrum Protect

As backup data is a primary tool used to recover from ransomware, ensuring the highest level of security surrounding the protection of TSM / Spectrum Protect data has been highlighted by Information Security. Having administrative accounts which h...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Allow local protect storagepool for cloud Container

Because of compliance guidelines, many users need to implement a “media brake” at their backup strategy. But the, very cost effective, Cloud Container Storage lacks the ability to protect the Storage pool to a tape pool.As the “protect stgpool typ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Protection copy for On-Premise Cloud Containers

On Premise Storage like Cloud Object Storage (COS) and other vendor solutions gives the ability, to use modern data protection with on premise cloud storage pools. In the age of cyber crime and ransomware, it is very important and a business requi...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

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?
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

SP support for encryption of DB backup

SP support as of SP 8.1.10 encryption of DB backups when backing up the DB to Cloud. The encrypted DB backup is protected by a password. Similar functionality should be available when backing up the SP database to other device types including sequ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

No comma's in session and process numbers

For almost 20 years I work with ADSM/TSM/ISP I'm super annoyed that you can't do an easy copy/paste of the session or process number to the cancel command if the number is higher then 999 Please remove the comma when you do a query session or quer...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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