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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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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 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Combine snappdiff and SM2T as complete backup solution

At the moment there is no fast way with TSM to restore single files / directories and also complete volumes on Netapp filers with cDot. With Snapmirror to tape (SMTT) we can restore a complete volume quickly, but there is no possibility to restore...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Do whole-file allocation for FILE scratch volumes too

According to the TSM Performance documentation at:http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r4/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsm.perf.doc%2Fr_ptg_sysfragfile.htmlthe TSM server utilizes OS functions to allocate space for volumes when preallocating...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 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 ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

DECOM / DEACTIVATE by future date

Requesting DECOMM VM, DECOMM NODE and/or DEACTIVATE commands be enhanced to allow specifying a future date. This could be parsed during EXPIRE, or possibly some other operation that gives more notice. Alternatively, if DEACTIVATE could be modified...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Add ability to retain active data in a normal storage pool

I propose that an additional paramater MIGACTIVEDATA is added as a storage pool parameter.      This parameter could be used to stop the migraion of active data from the initial staging pool and will eliminate the need for an additi...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Usability and Performance enhancements needed for very large filespace replication

There are 3 major problems currently with replication of very large filespaces.1) The initial replication and ongoing replication of data for nodes with very large filespaces (100 million+ objects) and with a large amount of data (10+TB) works ver...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Automatic Failover Failback with Node Replication

Today Node Replication is more or less only constrained to DR. However after meeting with Greg Tavis and other developers it's clear that this feature is changing in the future to be able to backup and recover from both the source and the target s...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

NDMP to TSM-Server (NAS filer to server) - enable simultaneous write

NDMP data transfers from NSeries (Netapp) Filers over TCP/IP (NAS to TSM Server Storage) currently does not support simultaneous write into primary and copy storage pools. It seems that the autocopy function is ignoring NDMP/TCP-IP data during ing...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Request the implementation of the duration/starttime/endtime parameters to the define stgrule actiontype=AUDIT

We've configured stgrules to audit containers, but it's impacting backups as we cannot update the stgrule with a duration or stoptime. Other stgrules have the duration and stoptime options, but the 'update stgrule actiontype=audit' doesn't have an...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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