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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Move node data from/to container storage pool

Migration of data from/to directory-container storage pool to/from disk or tape based storage pool is not possible.We need the ability to choose where the data reside and move them as needed without using the node replication feature that requires...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

We would like to be able to backup AWS S3 buckets

We have many AWS S3 buckets that users update every day. Versioning is very expensive as there is no dedup/compression and this is especially true if you replicate across AWS regions. We would like to be able to backup and restore files to S3 like...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

Remove null node name used for directory container storage pools from occupancy table

For directory container stgpools the Occupancy table contains an entry with a null nodename. This entry holds about half of the total files and reporting MB of that stgpool. Actually the real size of the stgpool is the total reporting MB minus the...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Allow larger than 256 KiB blocks while accessing tape devices

As by TS009588298 we have performance issue while accessing tape drives, and using a larger block size (e. g. 2 Mebibytes instead of the now maximum 256 KiB) is improving performance a lot. This would even make it possible for us to backup the SP-...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Node custom information user field

A 'custom information' field is desirable where we could input information in any format we as a user wish. There is no custom field to use for node details. Only 'Contact' field is available and it is not sufficient.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

resource aware scheduling in TSM

I work with TSM for 9 years and the biggest TSM's weakness I found is the scheduling. All the large environments I worked on used some external scheduling application like TWS or Control-M to be able to keep the resources under control. The proble...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 11 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect KMIP support for encryption

Basically requesting SP products compatibility with KMIP when using Spectrum Protect products built-in encryption capabilities.We are seeing encryption demands more and more every day and most of time customers want to have a unified encryption ke...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Enhanced RBAC with command specific granularity

Implement enhanced RBAC policy configuration based on a per command configuration policy. We want to specify per defined adminitrator which actions/commands can be executed. Command approval as implemented in the latest versions is to limited
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Add (Tape) Media livecycle

Add the ability to define a livecycle of a media. This lifecycle should contain a frequency data needs to be moved to a other media and a time a media needs do be disposed. By example, we need to define all tapes of a device class have to be copie...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Protect STGPool type=local mounts tape before checking if data to be copied available

TSM Server protect STGPool mounts Carts without any payload.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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