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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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AUDIT VOLUME command enhancement

One of the features of the current AUDIT VOLUME command is that while an audit process is active, clients cannot restore data from the specified volume or store new data to that volume. This can be a significant issue for audit volume processes th...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Azure Archive Tier Blob Tagging

Azure Archive tier is only usable by changing blobs after write. Archive blobs are not readable, but metadata is still there. It's very similar to HSM, with a recall delay of up to 15 hours. Archive tier has a very low storage cost, and is suitabl...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Admin API

Please document and open the admin api to the server. There seems to be an API which is used eg. by Tivoli Integrated Portal as I can see XML in tcpdumps. Maybe you still use something like SOAP. So providing an WSDL and/or Interfaces to .NET and ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Multiple Clientoptionsets for Nodes

Possibillity to assign multiple Cloptset to a node to build a cascade of rules. The Priority will follow the order the Cloptsets are assigned.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

SP Operation Center Front-End licensing improvement

Please, improve the functionality of front-end licensing on SP Operation Center. Currently, it is only showing active-data on the front-end licensing which is not completely true.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Moving the TSM Server parameter DIRECTIO NO from a server-wide option into a device class specific parameter

The Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) server will, by default, use non-buffered I/O bypassing the file system cache. By specifying the server option DIRECTIO NO within the dsmserv.opt, this behavior can be changed – means TSM is using the file system c...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Admin permissions just for a domain

More and more of our customers are requesting access to our Operation Center, but in the current functionality of TSM and Operation Center there is no way to deny/grant access to a certain domain.What we are requesting is a way to shield the domai...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Reload ssl config without restarting server

Enable reload of ssl/tsl config without restarting the server.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

restore stg xxx preview=yes

Env TSM Srv 6.2.3.0 for Windows x86_64 SrvName: DKS006_SERVER1 Problem: The client complained the output of the "Restore Stg ...PREVIEW=YES" command. He expect like described in documentation a complete and simple list of all volumes which are req...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Optimize Write IO behaviour on DISK

Using diskpools (deviceclass=disk) or filepools (deviceclass=file) on a non-cached disk system is very slow, and therefore not usable. Example (same setup in both cases):TSM write to diskpoolon 8x Internal DISK = 8MB/sAIX cp command on 8x Internal...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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