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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Leverage Cloud container pool directory as restore cache

SP 7.1.6 introduced the concept of using local storage as a fast ingest cache in a cloud container pool. I propose that the same or similar cache is used to mask the low per-stream object performance.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM "server to server" replication

NOTE: Collin Dawson is aware of this discussion.According to Collin this is a great Idea. Good for the EAP also.TSM "server to server" replication should prefereably be done in Policy domain rather than on Node Level. (node level now in plans)Is d...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Generate Backupset enhancements

We use the Generate Backupset option for long term offsite storage. With this we use Nodegroups to capture depending on how long a set should be kept for. What would be nice is if: A) reporting was a little more accurate...when a set runs I'll hav...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Admin API

Please document and open the admin api to the server. There seems to be an API which is used eg. by Tivoli Integrated Portal as I can see XML in tcpdumps. Maybe you still use something like SOAP. So providing an WSDL and/or Interfaces to .NET and ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM Spectrum Protect Integrated/Native High Availability Capability

Native TSM high availability. If a TSM Server fails in any way, the TSM Clients, Backups, Restores, HSM and other TSM production, can continue, maybe on another server, maybe a pool of TSM Servers that take over.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Change TSM Server-based Library Manager behaviour

Please change the behaviour of the TSM Server-based acting in a library manager only role to not require read/write access to the tape drives during normal operations. Currently, TSM server performing library manager only function (no servicing ba...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Reporting availability in the TSM administration console

Unlike other tools, if the standard minimal reporting can be incorporated with the TSM server admin console. Like media information(Vault & scratch), DB backup status, Backup status, etc. Some of the informations, we will get it from the opera...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM file devclass support for NFS filesystem

When defining file type of devclass, the directory options can be multiple directories. define devc fileclass devtype=file directory=/back1,/back2 We will be using 2 x 10 Gbit card to access NFS share. There will be two mounts at least, but both m...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

dismount vol * state=idle

For maintenance on a physical or virtual library it is sometimes needed to unmounts all tapes from a library. To do this you have to set devc to mountl=0 and cancels all processes and backups on LIBCLs using this library. Afterwards all drives are...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

halt command should do a complete and clean halt by option

Currently the halt command stops all processes but does not unmounts mounted volumes. In an LIBCL LIBMG environment you cannot use the drives until some timeouts will recycle the drives or the use in not confirmed to LIBMG (ANR8925W Drive x in lib...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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