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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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EXCLUDE.DIR Command for archive operations

My client is trying to archive and doesn't want to archive an entire directory (including subdirectories) In backup operations, there is a command that is exclude.dir through which that directory is not included in the copy. We wanted to request t...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Cloudtype S3 IA

Support for off-premise cloud container pool cloudtype for AWS S3 IA storage. Currently the only option is for S3.AWS offers S3 IA as an additional storage option - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-storage-update-new-lower-cost-s3-storage-opti...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Proof of Tape encryption

Since IBM made the decision to remove encryption from TSM4VE backups, we were forced to enable physical tape encryption for client data. There is currently no means to verify that a physical volume has been encrypted. The only method within Spectr...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Enable Admin with Policy Privilege to "upd no sessionsec=trans" (currently fails with ANR2035E)

Admin user has been granted „Policy Privilege: WIN“ and can execute "unlock node" and "update node" for resetting password.BUT upd node fails with "ANR2035E UPDATE NODE: Administrator XYZ is not authorized to issue this command." when resetting fo...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Db2admin member of local administrators group

Due to security policy the db2admin user should not be member of the local administrators group in Windows. The DB2 service can run as a service but the Spectrum Protect Server needs to be a member of the local admin group.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Send actlog to a remote syslog, a central loghost

There is a possibility to program userexit/fileexit to use syslog. But, the nativ support of remote syslog is needed as a standard solution. Send all entries that goes to actlog to remote syslog as a single line.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Integrate 'Relabel Scratch' command with Fujitsu Eternus vJuke virtual libraries

Fujitsu Eternus VTLs are well known in several customer's ISP environments. Main difference to other VTLs is the ability to stack logical volumes on physical tapes in the backend.Data written to the VTL is stored in a tape volume cache (TVC) on vi...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Rentention Sets for SAP/ERP

Spectrum Protect retention sets are utilized to achieve longer data retention without the need to make further interactions with the host. This capability is available for file and 'VE' data. We need this to be extended for other use cases, and in...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

HADR priming with online database backup

The current process to configure Tivoli Storage Manager for HADR is documented here: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Storage%20Manager/page/Electronic%20vaulting%20using%20deduplicated%20remote%20cop...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Adjust DECOMMISION NODE command to show ALL the changes done by it

ISP server administrators will benefit from it by spending less time on collecting action evidences for ticketing systems. Currently the command DECOMMISSION NODE with WAIT=YES doesn't show all the changes that command is doing. Check the piece of...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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