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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Add support for client encryption on deduplicated data

Support of client specified encryption (password) is needed for client side deduplication. This feature is desired to cover all types of clients from IBM - Backup-Archive, TSM4VE, TDP for SQL, TDP for mail and so on.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Storage Rule Exclude Function

Today when you create a Storage Rule Replication you can either assign all nodes or exclude all nodes and then create a subrule and include/exclude specific nodes. In our case do we have a 2 Sites solution where we replicate data between sites, th...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

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)'
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future 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...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Change QUERY OCCUPANCY to show the number of files backed up for each node/filespace in a directory container storage pool.

Currently QUERY OCCUPANCY returns the number of 10GB fragments associated with each file/object. So if a file is 54GB in size it will report this under QUERY OCCUPANCY six files; where five fragments occupy 10GB, and one as 4GB. As a customer the ...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

audit container markdamaged needs to update inventory objects as damaged

Any process that marks extents damaged should queue a process to mark those objects damaged which rely on the extents. AUDIT CONTAINER ACTION=MARKDAMAGED only marks extents damaged, so inventory objects stay not-damaged. Even later, if they are ac...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

REPLICATE NODE * DOMAIN=OFFSITE_*

Ability to replicate all nodes in one or more policy domains. Presently, only by node_name, or by nodegroup. There is no way to automatically update a nodegroup membership list.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

DEFINE STGRULE with directory container target

DEFINE STGRULE needs to allow directory containers as target pools, not just cloud pools.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Redesign DELETE FILESPACE for reduced log pinning and active log utilization

DELETE FILESPACE pins the DB2 active log st the start, and considers the entire deletion one transaction. This is not how ingested data is handled. Because of this disparity, it is possible to receive a large object, such as an NDMP backup, which ...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

enhance command line output

The text screen output from commands entered in dsmadmc should be enhanced. Many columns are too small and cause wrapping already for relatively short common values, making it hard to read. On the other hand, much space is wasted by separating col...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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