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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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one way password implementation on tsm server

During a security audit we found some probleme with the implementation of password allgorithm in TSM. It is recommended to immplement a one way password encryption algorithm, at least for the TSM server accounts (Admins, server to server, lan free...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Change dafault on deployments

Reevaluate default settings for retention of events and how frequent you pull or generate them. Option set:Activity Log Retention: 120 Day(s) - keep actlog longer than 4 quarter time limit, 100 days bare minimum, old setting from a time when 1GB o...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Node replication failed and does not replicate all data if a communication error occurred on the source or target server

The node replication failed and does not replicate all data if a communication error occurred on the source or target replication server.Occasionally, node replication will complete with a FAILURE in spite of replicating all objects after having a...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Open LDAP support

LDAP authetication is only supported with :ADIBM directory server It is possible to support LDAP authetication with Open LDAP ?
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Official support for DB2 HADR in Spectrum Protect Server

Although it is easy to find IBM documents recommending DB2 HADR as a replication solution for Spectrum Protect Server database (f.i. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6212198) it is not oficially supported. For this reason these products are ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Operations Center alerting modification

Configure alerting only on the hub server. The hub server should be the monitoring instance which is configured to send emails to administrators defined on hub server. The configuration wizard only shows the admin id's of the hub server. This curr...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Change in DB/View structure for Proxy agent/target and nodegroup/node relations

Have relational information between nodes/nodegroups - and proxy-agents/targets stored in tables (or presented in views) - instead of comma-seperated lists.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM needs to stop trying to load the same tape media to the same drive after hundreds of failures with ANR8944E and ANR8359E.

on 11/03/14 during a tape pool reclamation, 721 counts of "ANR8944E..." messages from "05:52:58" to "06:28:28" for volume I41079 and TKLI4-DR6 were received by TSM server. See blow:11/03/14 05:52:58 ANR8944E Hardware or media error on drive TKLI4-...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Delete induvidial export from volhistory or delete based on device class

My customer created all monthly and yearly data via export especially for TSM for VE data. Tapes should be expired after a year luckly 2 diffrent mngmt classes used for monthly and yearly. 1st issue TSM can not delete individual export volumes onl...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

allow deduplicated tape copy pools for storage pool backup purposes

Currently, only FILE pools can be deduplicated and TAPE pools can not. The reason is that a restore from a deduplicated TAPE pool would be unuseable due to excessive number of tape mounts. We understand this. However, we would still like to see th...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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