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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Spectrum Protect support for Google Object Storage

Spectrum Protect support for Google Object Storage as container storage pool.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

ZFS Support for Spectrum Protect Server on Linux x86_64

Having support for ZFS filesystem on Linux x86_64 is a must. ZFS filesystem is a strong and reliable filesystem that exists for years in Solaris world.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Bug in Spectrum Protect - LDAP timout issues stop the SP server starting

When starting the Spectrum Protect/TSM server it goes through the startup procedures.Part of this startup checks the LDAP connections.If the LDAP connection times out, then the SP server fails to start.The RFE is that if the LDAP fails then the SP...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Spectrum Protect Server Startup on Linux SystemD unit file

Would like a SystemD unit file for the SP server startup. Current process uses SystemV init script which runs from a user slice which inherently do not have access to all system resources. Running the application from a SystemD unit file would use...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Move data from tapes to container storage pools

There should be a way for people who want to abandon tapes to move their existing data to disk, in most recent format - container storage pools. As there is feature introduced with 7.1.6 to convert file based legacy storage pools to new container ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

HUB scalability

This is a request to improve the parallelization of spoke data ingest and processing on hub servers. There appears to be a single-threaded component, or some sort of processing bottleneck.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Delivered

Move automatic client deployment from DES to AES authentication

Currently automatic client deployment is only possible if the dsmserv option ALLOWDESAUTH is set to YES. Otherwise the client deployment will fail.Documented here - see Restrictions:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEQVQ_8.1.9/srv.r...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Fix Label Libvolume to report failure when encountering errors instead of failing to work yet reporting Success.

Label Libvolume processes can encounter errors but report Completed Successfully
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Abiloty to backup Spectrum Protect Database to Cloud

With the movement to cloud based storage, Spectrum protect needs to be able to back up its database to cloud storage to allow local restore of the entire database for DR. This could be required where:1. Customer has single SP server, and no targer...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Storage pool Protect query

The Protect command In Spectrum Protect writes data to a target storage pool. There is no way to display the 'protected' data that resides in the target pool. Something like Q OCC PROTECT nodename/stgpoolname . And it would also be nice to know ah...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

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