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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Secondary control for Adminstraive schedule jobs

This is a basic request. When a administrator leaves the company or change of project, per process the respective admin ID should be deleted from Spectrum Protect ( remove admin ). However the "remove admin" command just process the deletion reque...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Improve effectiveness of node replication process

The effectiveness of the node replication process needs to be improved, when data is located on FILEDEV device class based storage - in order to be better able to utilize the maximum defined number of sessions when possible.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Lift the limit that one filespace can only have one node replication session

I got more than 50 filespaces, some of these filespaces are filled with PB-level file data. To replicate one of the PB-level filespaces on LTO-8 tapes, will take more than one month. 1PB=1024*1024*1024 MB LTO-8 Drive read/write speed: 360MB/s 1024...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Add new command to administrative CLI to pause a script

I suggest you add a command named "wait", the purpose of which would be to pause a script in TSM CLI. For example doing "wait 10" would pause a script for 10 seconds.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

allow versioning/history for objects of S3 clients

Allow versioning/history for objects of S3 clients. It would allow automatic expiration of older versions. This would help implementing smooth S3 backup solutions for many modern "cloud" databases and similar tools, like Postgres, MongoDB, Hashico...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Needs more information

allow audit of copy-container pools

Some customers demand proof-read of tape based storage pools on a regular basis. We have used AUDIT VOLUME for this purpose even though its primary purpose is to check consistency of data but by doing that, it also reads all data from the tapes. B...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

speed up backup stgpool for file pools with dataformat=nonblock

On a SP server, we have lots of data from a CM8 environment, e.g. very many small files. About half of it from ICC and the other half from d3. 99% of this data is stored in FILE pools with DATAFORMAT=NONBLOCK because otherwise SP would cause a sto...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Support tiering from cloud to directory container storage pools

Currently, SP only supports tiering data from a directory container storage pools to cloud container storage pools. Once your data has moved to the cloud, you won't be able to move it back. The only way to do this is by destroying (!) your data in...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Replicate NDMP TOC

NDMP TOC still has to be backed up into a file class, and cannot be replicated. This is unacceptable for the "push everything in the cloud" mentality.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Server database online REORG cancelling running process & sessions

During online IBM Spectrum Protect Server database REORG current running process/sessions are cancelling. I don't have free window to run reorg alone. Below are the tables creating problem 11/10/2017 11:58:26 AM ANR1880W Server transaction was can...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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