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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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would like a ballance stgpooldir command

This occurs when adding directories for added space to a spectrum protect container. The existing directories are very full, and the newly added directories remain very empty. There is no balancing of data across the newly added and existing direc...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Multiple transfer streams between pools for data from a single node

We use a TSM system where the nodes/clients push data first to disk, then the TSM server migrate the data from disk to tape.We have several use cases where nodes periodically push data faster than the ~350MB/s that our tape drives (TS1150) can han...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

move retention data from one storage pool to another

It's not currently possible to move retention data from one storage pool to another. It is possible to move retention data to different volumes in the same storage pool. LTO9 tape volumes. That said, this might be a little more difficult to do wit...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

server support on windows server 2019

Windows server 2019 is widely used and users/customers expecting support for spectrum protect server and operation center on this platform
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Retention rule Media be part of DRM

If you are using Container Pool and want to create a air-gap copy of your data, either you do a protect storage pool to protect everything to your tape device or if you want to keep a offline copy for a longer period then the normal policy domain ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Show various command line options and/or help options for dsmserv using -h or --help flag

The proposal is provide -h or --help option for storage protect server command line. Storage Protect Server can be started with various options. Currently the user has to go through SP documentation to know these options, as the command line does ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

command approval- Non approver can promote himself as "approver"

The existing admin who was not configured as Approver can issue the command "update admin admin1 cmdapprover=yes" and promote himself as approver and approve for the his / others pending tasks. Its violating the purpose of having such feature.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Server support for Red Hat 8

Spectrum Protect server needs to run on latest Red Hat Enterpise Linux editions 8 and 8.1.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect 8.1.7 Retrule for NDMP data

Client have requirement to retain the NDMP data for long term retention. We have upgraded the Spectrum Protect servers from 8.1.6 to 8.1.7 and tried to enable the retrule for NDMP data. But unfortunately that feature is not enabled for NDMP /datam...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Properly manage Archive Mode flag in TS1150/TS1155 tape drives

The IBM TS1150 and TS1155 Enterprise tape drives has a configuration setting called Archive Mode [1] which controls whether archive mode unthread (also called low tension refresh) should be performed on tape unload. In recent firmwares [2] the def...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

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