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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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    Option to enhance ANR3654W Inventory file expiration when not using replication

    When you are using the policies on the target replication server to manage replicated client-node data, you must run expiration processing every 24 hours to allow the target replication server reuse storage pool space that is occupied by expired r...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Enable Aspera for Spectrum Protect on Power Linux server

    The customer has ISP on Power AIX server and want to enhance BCP between two sites with low bandwidth.I understand that Linux on IA server is supported.But this customer want to get end to end support from IBM.And we also want to exclude competito...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Synchronize policy information to another SP server

    There is a Spectrum Protect environment with 2 Spectrum Protect servers. Server A is the primary server to which the SP clients connect to, which stores alll SP client data in first place, and on which all SP client node information, associations ...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

    Add tunable to enable increase disk IO block size from 256kB

    The TSM server on Linux is currently using Direct IO with a 256kB block size when doing IO to/from DISK/FILE volumes. The decision to use 256kB was made a long time ago, and the current state of technology is that this block size is simply to smal...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Server migration processing should be able to use more than 1 process with data from only 1 node in the primary disk pool

    Server migration processing (from disk to tapes) should be able to use more than 1 process in order to use multiple tape drives in parallel emptying the disk pool despite data in the primary disk pool is from 1 node only.
    almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    Migrate Container pool in same TSM server

    Migrate data between Container pools in same TSM server is not possible at the moment, The only way to do this is to set up a node replication to another tsm server.
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Change (add) blocksize to 256K for backup NDMP for HNAS to Tape

    Hello,We were faced with the slow speed of data backup via NDMP protocol from Hitachi NAS device. Hitachi said that our backup speed through IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.9 will increase 3 times if you Add and make a choicethe block size during backup....
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    Include proxy node (PROXY_AGENT) info in actlog

    When using proxy nodes to put data into a single proxy target, it would be nice if operations by proxy nodes (PROXY_AGENT) are logged together with the proxy node name i a seperate column in the TSM server activity log.If backups are done directly...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

    ANR2578W and ANR2579E - Include node hostname information

    One of the roadblocks we have at the moment is that the missed and failed ANR messages do not display the actual hostname of the node. ANR2578W Schedule schedule name in domain domain name for node node name has missed its scheduled start up windo...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    Ability to backup TOC objects to a Container pool.

    There is an immediate need for the feature enhancement in Spectrum Protect to have the ability to backup TOCs to a Container pool besides current ability for backup server to collect and store file-level information in a table of contents (TOC) wh...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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