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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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In clustered (HA) environments, Spectrum Protect should support installing interim fixes without downtime

We are using Spectrum Product for Data Retention in a document centric application step, that serves access to contract statements over the web in an always on environment. Maintenance (major version or scheduled FP upgrade) is expected to be deli...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect - stgrule subrule, allow groups to be specified and not just clients

stgrule subrule - allow groups and/or wildcards to be used for subrules. For example, at the moment I have 500 clients, some I want to tierbystate and some tierbyage. To keep my setup simple, I have one staging pool which tiers to one cloud pool. ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

SP server to support IBM S3 cloud side retention policies, WORM features, object locking

When using Cloud Storage Pool in a Spectrum Protect Server , it should support all the features that can be set at the S3 level ( especially when the S3 cloud is IBM !! ) like Cloud side retention policies, WORM features, object locking.For retent...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

Node Replication Status

When a node fails to replicate, it is nearly impossible to determine why it failed. You have to open a PMR and gather logs and usually have to bring in level II support. This is a big waste of both my and IBM supports' time.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Log server tcp port as well together with client ip/port in access log.

Today the server logs entries similar to the following: 03/03/22 09:02:58 ANR0406I Session 83331 started for node HOST.EXAMPLE.COM (Linux x86-64) (SSL host.example.com[dead:beef::1]:45186). (SESSION: 83331) However, there is no logging of which se...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Implement console mode installation to support clean server installations

Remove the need for using a "GUI" server for Spectrum Protect Server. When running the SP on a true server instance, then only allowing GUI install is limiting our environment and also makes installation more complicated due to VM/OS itself but a...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Future consideration

Add support for tape media partitioning

With the ever increasing capacity of tape volumes collocation by node wastes more and more space for smaller nodes. Switching to collocation by group is not an option for us as we have thousands of nodes that are not in our direct control so we do...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Add support for TSM Server instances to be managed by systemd on Linux.

We require support for TSM Server instances to be properly managed by systemd on Linux. This would require the creation and distribution of a proper service unit file.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Allow for more than 1 concurrent expiration processes

A further expiration process can't be started if already an expiration process is running. Customer have 4 windows cluster systems with a huge system state. Expiration for these client nodes run a couple of days.This prevents a daily expiration pr...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Decommission VM confirmation with filespace name

When decommission is run for example:DECOMMISSION VM VMNAME 999 NAMETYPE=FSID No confirmation of what filespace/vmname is shown. The confirmation message:ANR3392W DECOMMISSION VM: This command will decommission the specified virtual machine. The a...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

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