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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Reclaim of offsite Filling volumes

On old style copypools and the new style protect stg to local tape, reclaim does not occur on tape volumes in state Filling.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Improvement of usability by implementing a HOST command in dsmadmc

By using a HOST command or special character, commands can be issued at operating system level and you do not have to log out of dsmadmc.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

add option to PROTECT STGPOOL TYPE=LOCAL to select the target pool

The definition of a container storage pool allows to specify up to two local protection pools (tape). When the "protect stgpool type=local" command is used to update the local protection pool(s) there is currently no way to have it update only one...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

IPv6 Support for NDMP

NDMP-Backup of NAS-Systems (CDOT CAB) not possible in IPv6-Only environment. Datamover creation can't resolve AAAA records, NAS Node needs v4 LIF to open connection to tape server. First step would be to tell the storage system only the DNS name o...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Additional Replication IP for Secondary Server beside high level address and low level address

Secondary server has 2 IPs but we can only specify 1 hl address when server is defined on primary server. Because of that all clients for which replication is enabled, want to use the HL address to perform backups when called for. Ultimately would...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM is not supproted on p7 except in p6 compatibility mode

TSM on p7 hardware requires that you run the LPAR in p6 compatibility mode. This is a Java/DB2 limitation during the install or upgrade. This limitation should be fixed as it nullifies the reason for migrating to better/faster hardware. http://www...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Provide a way to show running TSM scripts and to cancel them

Currently there is now way to show which TSM scripts have been startet and furthermore they cannot be stopped. The only way to finish a script prematurely is to cancel every process that is startet by the script or to define exit conditions such a...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Ability to specify Node replication parameters on each node

To increase security in the node replication feature, we would like to have the option to specify the target TSM server IP, Port, Nodename and Nodepassword on individual nodes - instead of global settings, which requires server-to-server communica...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

DEACTIVATE DATA to include FILESPACE and FSID

DEACTIVATE DATA should allow a FILESPACE or FSID to allow purging only specific filespaces by date.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Full Active Directory Intergration

Full Active Directory Integration as a single signon solution
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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