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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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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...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 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...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Needs more information

Need to be able to move data between container pools

Need to have the ability to move data between container pools as needed. This includes: Directory to DirectoryCloud to CloudCloud to Directory
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

SP Operations Center group assign Alerts

Add a functionality to manage (assign and close) Alerts faster and in groups (bulk selections) in the Spectrum Protect Operations Center. Or make the assignment drop-down menu part of each alert so that it's easier to assign.Please design the OC i...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 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...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Needs more information

Replication should not hang if target pool is hung

When replicating to a cloud pool target, if a Disk to Cloud Transfer is hung, then replication hangs. Replication should have a timeout so that it can skip, abort, etc. rather than winding up locks.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

Recommision node / reverting decommission node command

Implementing a recommission node command to stop the decommission node process without restoring database.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Add query volume for NDMP snapmirror backup

Add a query volume option for BACKUP NODE TYPE=SNAPMirror Sample: QUERY BACKUP NODE [node] TYPE=SNAPMirror This would simply the backup for backup operators without access to the NetApp filer. The workaround "BACKUP NODE cluster1node1 TOC=No TYPE=...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Enable Aspera for Spectrum Protect on Power Linux server

The customer has ISP on Power AIX server and want to enhance BCP between two sites with low bandwidth.I understand that Linux on IA server is supported.But this customer want to get end to end support from IBM.And we also want to exclude competito...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Improve TSM DB protection

Currently TSM Server v6 supports the following recovery targets: 1) PIT of the TSM DB backup; 2) most recent PIT. This RFE is opened to request an enhancement to improve TSM DB recoverability by leveraging existing native DB2 functionality to allo...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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