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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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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...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

TSM-Server Support for ONTAP NDMP CAB Feature

NetApp offers since Clustered ONTAP(cDOT) 8.2 the NDMP Feature CAB (Cluster Aware Backup). Data Volume movements within a ONTAP Cluster (which may consist of currently up to 24 Storage Controllers; by "Vol Move" command) is an liked Feature for al...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Automatic failover/failback target replication server for Backup &Archive operations

Automatic failover/failback target replication server for Backup &Archive operations.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

NDMP backups to the cloud

Our customer is rolling out 24 Spectrum Protect servers, and we have found that there is no way to get NDMP into the cloud. Also, NDMP TOC data cannot be replicated at all. Because AIX does not support CIFS mounting Azure (requires SMBv3, which wa...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

DECOMMISSION NODE/VM with Enddate

Add date parameter to DECOMMISION NODE and DECOMMISSION VM command.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Prevent media with read/write errors to be reused

When a tape has a write error, it should not be reused when it has returned to scratch pool. We need some method to track media statistics across the life time of a tape, from all the SP host that has used the tape. Each SP server should send tape...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Replication hung sessions are not getting cancelled on source and target TSM automatically after network disruptions

Replication sessions are getting hung due to network disruption and those sessions are not getting cancelled when the network issue is resolved. It took almost 4 hours for those sessions to get cancelled by TSM server which delayed DR replication ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

Users should not be able to view every other users' filespaces

Currently, any authorised user of TSM can view the list of filespaces owned by any other user (provided that user is running on the same platform) by giving the "fromnode" argument to 'query filespace' in dsmc, for instance:> q fi -fromnode="my...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under 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...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Active Directory integration with TSM

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