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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Migrate Storagepool - Client data is faster than migration

Client backups fail when migration of storage pool to successor storagepool takes too long.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Allow filespace deletion for non-replicated nodes without blocking replication stgrule execution

Currently, a replication storage rule fails when a delete filespace is already running. The following messages is issued: ANR1079E Storage rule REPLICATION did not start a tiering process because a DELETE FILESPACE operation is in progress. I can ...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Improvement of usability by implementing a HOST command in dsmadmc

By using a HOST command or special character, commands can be issued at operating system level and you do not have to log out of dsmadmc.
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Drive preference in a mixed-media library sharing environment

TSM supports multiple media types in a single library definition. It handles these through media type information reported by the physical library,combined with the drive read and write format lists provided by the drives. Unfortunately, in this c...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Update Management Class for backups/archives in TSM

in our environment TSM is used for data availability (systems and applications backups), and for data retention (archives of historical data).We have the case of files archived all with the same criteria -so the same Management Class- but now we r...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Extension of the Table "Replicationview" by the columns batchesQ and batchesD

Hello, the command "show replication" shows the number of "batchesQ" and "batchesD".Is it planned to implement the number of "batchesQ" and "batchesD" in the table REPLICATIONVIEW?Currently I can't find any columns in this table regarding this. En...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

Storage Rule Exclude Function

Today when you create a Storage Rule Replication you can either assign all nodes or exclude all nodes and then create a subrule and include/exclude specific nodes. In our case do we have a 2 Sites solution where we replicate data between sites, th...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Better Information for Storage Rule

If we run any Storage rule like Replication or Tiering of data between pools and we see it failed of some reasons. A natural way to investigate a issue is to run the same command manually using wait=yes and in that way get more information, but ve...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Needs more information

Request for a Server option to prevent the server to pass the communication options for a replication target to a client

Starting with version 7.1 a client can failover to a replication target for restoring data. If the client is enabled and configured for replication on the server, the client receives the communication options for the target and adds the informatio...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Improve documentation on Spectrum Protect Object Agent

See related case TS008878679. There is no documentation on the configuration details of the Object Agent. The object agent is needed to offload data from Spectrum Protect Plus to Spectrum Protect. There is no documetation on the object_agent_confi...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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