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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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tape overwrite function for copy-container storage pools

Please implement a way to overwrite a tape in a container-copy storage pool. In sequential pools you could just use the "move data" command for this and move the data from one tape to another without losing temporary copy coverage or messing with ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Migration process hang waiting volumes in use

Storagepools with file type devclass are used on a large scale in this client. the problem occurs when the migration process starts and some session has a mounted .bfs file (backup or restore). The migration process remains stuck until the session...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

export/import backupset volhist and ToC pool

If replication is used to migrate data from one SP server to another SP server, information about backupsets (and exports) in volhist is not sent over to the new server.make export server able to export server filedata=backupsetand export server f...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Allow Target Server to be specified on Replicate Node

Allow the the target replication server to be specified on the replicate node command. In addition, document the DOMAIN option on replicate node in online and admin quide.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Provide options within SP to use SCSI commands to work with the tape operations, like mount a tape, unmount a tape, move tape from one slot to another etc

This is required for day to day operations, and this option is pretty much available with all other backup product vendors Refer - https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100022873 IBM case Ref - Case: TS016303198 (ibm.com)
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Functionality already exists

Support-info collection, upload and analytics tool

It is a pain to collect db2diag-logs, dsmffdc-logs, Q SYSTEM output, Q ACT output and so on for every support ticket, then bundle the files, scp to computer with browser and upload to IBM Support. Why not, instead of sending the commands every tim...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Handle LTO9+ initialization process with parallellisation

I would like a dedicated command added to the SP server admin client for initialization of LTO9+ volumes. I have seen TL43-I-23, but doing it in SP makes it work for all libraries, not just TS. When we first took the LTO9 library in use, I scripte...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Support DELL ECS S3 Object Lock for Spectrum Protect Backup

It is a major Spectrum Protect customer request. This customer already owns DELL ECS and wants to use it to host immutable backups. It should work as it is the case with Spectrum Protect on AWS Object Lock today.
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

LDAP Group Authorization for ADMIN users

IBM Storage Protect is actually the only product in our environment that is not allowing to map LDAP groups to specific authorization levels. How should this work?You would for example define on the SP server in dsmserv.opt the LDAP url including ...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

1500 character limit for SQL statements in dsmadmc

Currently there is a limit that commands im dsmadmc can't be longer than 1500 characters else error ANS8028E will be raised.For most commands this limit is fine but for Spectrum Protect server scripts with complex SQL statements this is a real str...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 50 Future consideration

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