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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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IBM Backup, Recovery and Media Services (BRMS) for i and Tivoli Storage Manager for IBM i

I've a client in Moçambique that would like to back an Exictos-Promosoft Financial Suite on an IBM iSeries box (aka AS400's) using TSM V7.1 or later. Could you let me know if this is possible and how the client can do this. The client also has oth...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Decomission of file system for agent base

we are able to perform the completed server using decomission command decom node nodename can we have update feature of this like decom filespace nodename fsid nametype=fsid like this.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Manage proxy node ( restore Only , backup Only ,both)

Hello, We have production and not production environment. Some nodes needs to be restored on not production environment. But a derogation is mandatory to do it. So, we configured proxy nodes . Then we can lock and unlock the nodes to be compliance...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

make copies of existing Backupsets: either to go from Lto2 to lto4 media; and/or make duplicates for redundancy/DR issues!

make copies of existing backupsets to move the backupset from LTO2 to LTO4 tape media; to have reduntant backupsets(DR reasons) without having to issue the backupset command twice since the available creation time will not allow entering the same ...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

XS & XXS blueprint confguration for ISP

One of our customer is planning to migrate his ISP (8.1.16) to a new HW with latest ISP version. Customer's existing setup is quite small & was implemented as per blueprint guidelines. His current Db size is 110GB with container pools size of ...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Private AWS DirectConnect domain support in SP

Our customer need to have support in Spectrum Protect for using private AWS DirectConect domain for VPCE in URL Cloud Connection for S3. SP currently support only public domain in URL like "s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com" This Spectrum Protect limitat...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Cancel sess node=XXXXXX

Add extra functionality to the existing command: Cancel session nodename=XXXXX Cancel sess whereplatform=XXXXXX Perhaps a preview option could als be added. This functionality could be a huge improvement in Enterprise Environments. Sometimes you w...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Protect Stgpool target to cloud container

We need protect stgpool to work with cloud containers as a target pool.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Move filespace to another node

It would be helpful to be able to change the retention of a VM after it has been deleted, without having to restore, rebind, then re-delete. Ideally, we would be able to add a target node name to RENAME FILESPACE, or a new command for MOVE FILESPA...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Avoid filespace lock used by export server/node

Tivoli Storage Server supports export node/export server functionality which is used e.g. for data migration. During the export process the filespace ,currently identifying files to export, is locked. The ability to avoid locking the filespace was...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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