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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Automatic Failover Failback with Node Replication

Today Node Replication is more or less only constrained to DR. However after meeting with Greg Tavis and other developers it's clear that this feature is changing in the future to be able to backup and recover from both the source and the target s...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Select Node, which using Encryption, from Server

We have system with nearly 11000 nodes and I would like to know as Server-Administrator, which nodes have encrypted data and can be affected by some changes.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Allow filespace deletion for non-replicated nodes without blocking replication stgrule execution

Currently, a replication storage rule fails when a delete filespace is already running. The following messages is issued: ANR1079E Storage rule REPLICATION did not start a tiering process because a DELETE FILESPACE operation is in progress. I can ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Improvement of usability by implementing a HOST command in dsmadmc

By using a HOST command or special character, commands can be issued at operating system level and you do not have to log out of dsmadmc.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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

Add all of the information in the ACTLOG receiver events to the SYSLOG receiver destination

The activity log receiver receives events of the format04/24/2020 08:02:06 ANR2017I Administrator TSMADMIN issued command: ASFDASF (SESSION: 773) but the syslog receiver receives events of the format2020-04-24T08:02:06 dsmserv[14887]: UVIC_ADM4: A...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

NDMP to TSM-Server (NAS filer to server) - enable simultaneous write

NDMP data transfers from NSeries (Netapp) Filers over TCP/IP (NAS to TSM Server Storage) currently does not support simultaneous write into primary and copy storage pools. It seems that the autocopy function is ignoring NDMP/TCP-IP data during ing...
over 9 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

Option to enhance ANR3654W Inventory file expiration when not using replication

When you are using the policies on the target replication server to manage replicated client-node data, you must run expiration processing every 24 hours to allow the target replication server reuse storage pool space that is occupied by expired r...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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