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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Option "Skipmissingsyswfiles" to be allowed in the Client Options Set

The "Skipmissingsyswfiles" option is needed to stop SP/TSM from skipping system state files that will be needed for a "Bare Metal Restore" (BMR). Currently this option can only be set in the DSM.OPT file. We want to be able to set this option in t...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Web based Blue-print document for Spectrum protect /plus

We are using Blue-Print document to configure our environment for Spectrum protect / plus. This is document and many times it gets ignored by customers to configure their environment. It is important to refer blue-Print document before sizing / co...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

REST style API for administrative purposes

An API towards the TSM server is desirable, in order to be able to automate functions other applications/services - instead of having to build wrappers for the administrative command-line.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Server for SLES 15.X

No versions of Spectrum Protect are currently support SLES15
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Backing up data to Replication Spectrum protect server when Production TSM server id down for many days.

When the production Spectrum Protect server is down or having Disaster scenario, SP admins should go through tiresome steps to backup the data to replication SP Server. For each client, we will need to below steps for customers having 4000+ client...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

GENERATE BACKUPSET hang on huge amount of data

Based on PMR 54452,740,740, we would like to modify the DB2 schema/indicies, or else to able to generate backupset with huge amount of data stored under a single node.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Expand "SET FAILOVERHLADDRESS" to node granularity

On Server Version 7.1 a function "SET FAILOVERHLADDRESS " was introduced to allow the failover IP to be different then the IP used for replication, this is a step in the right direction. However on TSM Servers with multiple IP's with clients in di...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

When converting/migrating to container pool, add option to uncompress/dedup/compress legacy-compressed data

When migrating/converting legacy storage pools to the new container-type storage pool, it should be possible to specify on the command line, that "legacy" data during migration/conversion should be uncompressed, dedupped (if not already dedupped) ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Encryption of Server2Server Volumes

We'd like to get a possibility to use encryption on any device class protected by the current IBM Spectrum Protect Instance. Especially using server2server virtual volumes on another IBM Spectrum Protect Server, needs the data stored on the target...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

All server-side command to control which SP server a client connects to as primary

Allow Spectrum Protect administrator to issue a command that will alert a node it should connect to a different SP server as a primary.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

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