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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Red Hat Pacemaker Cluster Services support with IBM Spectrum Protect

IBM Services have many enterprise customers with regulatory requirements that requires high availability (HA) on all IBM Spectrum Protect servers that handle critical data both at on-premise data center as remote data centers. In cases where HA is...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Secure server_console account in spectrum protect

Server_Console account is not password protected which is a fail safe account in spectrum protect and need full privilege for this account. We can reduce privilege for this account; however, it will remove this account purpose which is a fail-safe...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Directory container pools wasting space because of missing reclamation

We need of some kind of reclamation or defragmentation process for containers in directory-container storage pools, because thousands of nearly empty containers waste space in the filesystem. So despite deduplication, much more space is used than ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Additional information/option for query session command

Adding tcp_name (DNS) and/or ip address to query session command (extending sessions table). Add an option to query node to provide specific node name like "query session node=XYZ" to find out a node is currently accessing the server.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to export data by management class using the export node command

I propose that the TSM export node command is enhanced so that specific management classes are targeted for extraction. This will enable administrators to extract specific data ( typically long term data ) and leave out all the unnecessary data. T...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Cross platform migration: Linux x86 to AIX

Allow TSM to restore its database from a Linux x86 server to an AIX server.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Export operations increased to 256kB blocksize

IBM labs has detected Export operations blocksize to be a performance bottleneck.All other tape operations are said to use 256kB blocksize whilst Export operations use 32kB blocksize. The request is to start using 256kB blocksize for Export operat...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Metadata tags cannot be added/associated to Filespaces in Spectrum Protect

Metadata tags cannot be added/associated to Filespaces in Spectrum Protect
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Add wait=yes to audit command

We would like to have a "wait=yes" option to the audit volume command. I think this should be done since audit container has this option.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect and Open LDAP

A lot of customer use an openLDAP to secure their IT and enforce all application to use it.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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