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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Allow REPLICATE NODE against DECOMMissioned nodes

Customer would like to REPLICATE nodes that are in a DECOMMISIONED status. The reason is to have 2 or 3 copies of archived data, to be maintained for legal reasons for 10 years, currently stored in a dedup container. He wants to create a new repli...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

AIX update Spectrum protect server instal manual to set maxuproc='4096'

I tried to "su" to tsminst1 userid, and got the following message.0403-030 the fork function failed. Too many processes allready exist.ulimit -Hc , Hd, Hf, Hn, and Ht allready set to unlimited.I ran the following command;lsattr -E -l sys0 -a maxup...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Querying actlog with option MSGNO can only be done with one argument, this should be extendend to use more arguments

The search in Actlog with the msgno option should be extended so that it is possible to search for several message numbers. For example, msgno=0293,0294 should be possible in a query so that you can see the start and end of an action, therefore yo...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Decomission of file system for agent base

we are able to perform the completed server using decomission command decom node nodename can we have update feature of this like decom filespace nodename fsid nametype=fsid like this.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Admin User Creation Segregation of Duty

Due to enhanced security requirements the customer would like to have a segregation of duty for the creation of admin users. The possibility of creating new admin users and granting them system authority should be removed from the admin/system aut...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

retset without retrule

The new feature retset requiers to define also an retrule with is basicly a scheduler. We use an external scheduler and don't need the retrule. It's also useless to define an retule for ontime retset. It should be possible to generate an retset wi...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Active Directory integration with TSM

Full Active Directory integration required as a single sign on solution
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Change QUERY ACTLOG output to match terminal window width

I'm not sure if this RFE applies to the server or dsmadmc client, but the request is to change the behavior of the QUERY ACTLOG command output to stretch (and wrap if necessary) to the current width of the terminal window where it is running.Other...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Use seperate TCP port for node replication - preferably only communication initiated from the source server

When using node replication, it should be possible to specify a seperate TCP port, that can be used for node replication (and the dsmadmc command line should not be able to communicate on this port).From a network security perspective, it is not a...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Point in Time Restore facility

With DB2 as core of TSM to reduce the impact and time to restore a TSM-DB we want to have a function like point in time restore capability. These Function enable us to reduce our outage window in an case of an disaster.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

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