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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Command to release a PENDING volume to SCRATCH

When a tape library has used all its scratch volumes, the admin needs to make some tapes available to keep operations running. If there are no tapes that can be checked in, a possibility is to free up some already empty volumes in PENDING state. T...
over 6 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
over 11 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...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM Terabyte Front End Capacity Calculator - needs to be reworked for VE

Please see mentioned PMR. Calculation of front end capacity for TSM for Virtual Environments is wrong, in my opinion. The results differ wildly depending on if the customer uses thin or thick disks and if there happen to be snapshots, for example....
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Support for secure NDMP

NAS filer (i.e.NetApp) are supporting secure NDMP.This ensures secure communication between the NDMP server and the backup application.https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMLP2348067/html/GUID-E3157FCA-CAE6-4614-A549-557025A2EC46.html Spectrum Pro...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Tool to reset damaged files without "audit volume"

Sometimes there is some error condition while the TSM server is reading a tape (tape failure, drive failure, network failure, other). In many of these cases, the TSM server marks the files it could not read as "damaged". The standard way of making...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

export server does not include scripts etc.

When running export server in order to import srversettings in an brand new server not everything is includen. I miss scripts, proxy settings, servr and node groups from the data exported out of the old server.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Better estimation on tape capacity

At the moment TSM does not do any true estimation or ongoing estimation on the capacity of a tape.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Change or add algorithm that TSM will use to select scratch tapes.

TSM DRM tapes are checked out of the tape library, and taken offsite for disaster recovery. When the tapes are returned from offsite, and put back into the library and go back to scratch status, the acquired count goes back to 0. The tapes get use...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

need to backup ndmp type=snapmirror to container storage pool

Almost all (avout 95%) the netapp backup in Ben -Gurion unuversity, based on ndmp backup with type=snapm.This is very large volume's, includ the volumes of exchange database's.We do backup to evry volume once a month, all the month we have daily s...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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