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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Request the implementation of the duration/starttime/endtime parameters to the define stgrule actiontype=AUDIT

We've configured stgrules to audit containers, but it's impacting backups as we cannot update the stgrule with a duration or stoptime. Other stgrules have the duration and stoptime options, but the 'update stgrule actiontype=audit' doesn't have an...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Encrypt CREDentialsfile

IBM really? stores credentials in plain text. Does your policy allow this?
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Cloud Tiering by filespace for non-VM nodes

DEFINE SUBRULE LONGTERM LEGALHOLD LEGALHOLD001 ACT=TIERBYAGE TIERD=62 MAXPROC=20 FILESPACE="/longterm" ANR1998E DEFINE SUBRULE: Invalid value for FILESPACE parameter - /longterm The documentation does not clearly state, and only vaguely alludes to...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

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

Prevent data moving processes starting up when expire inventory is running

Since expire inventory needs to be running more or less alone, preventing other datamoving tasks from running could reduce amount of failures to the DB tables that would render future expire inventory run into errors. Maybe something like this ex...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Ability to backup TOC objects to a Container pool.

There is an immediate need for the feature enhancement in Spectrum Protect to have the ability to backup TOCs to a Container pool besides current ability for backup server to collect and store file-level information in a table of contents (TOC) wh...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

include a record in SPserver SUMMARY_EXTENDED for missed scheduled ( successful=no )

We need a single table to compute SLA , summary_extended seems to be the one to use. But we realized missed schedules are not included . they are in the events table.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

tsmdlst for direct attached SCSI libraries/drives

Since ISP 8.1.1 the tsmdlst tool in only supporting HBA / SAN attached libraries and tape drives.Find explanation here:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?crawler=1&uid=swg1IT22703We are using several direct attached libraries and are pl...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Backup of NFS file systems without mounting them.

Currently our customer use IBM Spectrum Protect in their on-premise archiving. They are in their journey to cloud and want to implement an archiving robust solution, so they started to evaluate multiple tools including IBM SP. They are requesting ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

IPv6 Support for NDMP

NDMP-Backup of NAS-Systems (CDOT CAB) not possible in IPv6-Only environment. Datamover creation can't resolve AAAA records, NAS Node needs v4 LIF to open connection to tape server. First step would be to tell the storage system only the DNS name o...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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