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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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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...
almost 3 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...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Metadata tags cannot be added/associated to Filespaces in Spectrum Protect

Metadata tags cannot be added/associated to Filespaces in Spectrum Protect
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Tape optimized inline copy on filelist backup for HSM managed filesystems

We have a IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) file system which is HSM managed using the IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management client. In addition we are using the IBM Spectrum Protect backup/archive client to backup those data, driven by the mmbackup t...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect and Open LDAP

A lot of customer use an openLDAP to secure their IT and enforce all application to use it.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Add monthly projections to the IBM Storage Protect (TSM) sizer tool

The IBM Storage Protect Sizer tool does not provide monthly projections...only yearly projections. We would like the IBM Storage Protect Sizing tool to be enhanced to also give monthly projections. This is particularly of interest to plan deliver ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Spectrum Protect Data Retention - restrict interaction with node data to node user

We use Spectrum Protect whit Data Retention enabled to store archive data.nobody besides the application should be able to delete single files that are stored in spectrum protect. We work with event based retention. If the event is set from the ap...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

default custom ID required on Spectrum Protect Server Install

Currently a new built of TSM server 8.1 does not create the "admin/admin" ID like it was done with 5.5 versions. THis creates a problem with build automation where it requires a extra step to register a ID adding to build time.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

ANR2034E should be INFO and not ERROR

It's annoying that there's an error logged just because I ran query mount and nothing was mounted (maybe that was a good thing). This is how it currently looks on one of our servers, 184644 counts of ANR2034E, second place is 938. That's a lot of ...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Connect to an AWS S3 bucket with an IAM Role

Our customer wants Spectrum Protect to be able to connect to an AWS S3 Bucket using an IAM Role without the need of the access key and the secret key. Today other products are able to do it.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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