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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

Separate expiration of decommissioned nodes

When having many decommissioned nodes the expire inventory process tend to run for a very long time (more then 24 hrs). This upset the normal housholding tasks in administrative schedules. Suggest expiration of decommissioned nodes are run in a se...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under 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

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...
over 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
over 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...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 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.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Add support for Google Cloud Storage buckets defined with Customer Managed Encryption keys

Support for Google Cloud Storage (GCS) as a cloud container pool is currently restricted to using Google Managed Keys (GMK) for encryption on the buckets on the Google side. The use of Customer Managed Keys (CMS) is a common mandatory requirement ...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

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