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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Multisession replication of a big file

At the moment the limitation of replication over the WAN with latency and package lost is the fact, that one file can only be replicated in one session. Starting with TSM 7.1 big files are represented by segments within TSM, but still only one ses...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Enable wildcards on storage pools and node names on DEDUPSTATS commands

Enable usage of wildcards and/or nodegroups on storage pools and node names on the commands: GENERATE DEDUPSTATSDELETE DEDUPSTATSQUERY DEDUPSTATS
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under 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

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

fix column widths in dsmadmc interactive screen output

When using dsmadmc for SP management, the screen output quality looks often still like from previous century. Especcially number columns are often too narrow even when there is plenty of console width still available. This leads to wrapped numbers...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under 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...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

cache for directory container pools

it will be great to have a cache for directory container pool in order to temporary store the data received and then migrate them to directory container. using faster disks like ssd as a temp pool will significant improve backup and replication sp...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future 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...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Postspone client issued delete backup commands from API and/or BA clients

Whenever a client that has 'deletebackup=yes' submitts a delete data request, this request should be queued for deletion pending approval from admin or executed after a few days. Maybe a optional field on the node 'DeleteDelay (days)'
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future 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

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