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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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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

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

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

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

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

No storage for client transaction

The customer wants to know if it is possible to get a request for improvement started so that TSM B-A clients will handle this problem file more elegantly, without blowing up server storage? We added a few hundred Unix servers to ECS (object stora...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 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

TSM Library Audit command enhancement

We have TS3500 libraries that we try to do monthly audits on. In order to do the audits, all the drives in the library must be idle, unmounted. As we have grown, there is rarely if ever an instance when all the drives are idle, therefore, we canno...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

To Improve Communication Between Spectrum Protect Server (on Windows Platform) and VTL (Fujitsu Eternus CS)

1. There is no option to define control path failover for medium changer (or timeout value for this), so whenever there is VLP failover in VTL or even small connection break, TSM immediately reports Library is not accessible and if we have volumes...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review