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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Abiloty to backup Spectrum Protect Database to Cloud

With the movement to cloud based storage, Spectrum protect needs to be able to back up its database to cloud storage to allow local restore of the entire database for DR. This could be required where:1. Customer has single SP server, and no targer...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Move data from tapes to container storage pools

There should be a way for people who want to abandon tapes to move their existing data to disk, in most recent format - container storage pools. As there is feature introduced with 7.1.6 to convert file based legacy storage pools to new container ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Exclude nodes from expiration

Currently expiration runs by node or domain or everything. Node should have option to be included or excluded in standard expiration.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

IBM Spectrum Protect - Active Directory 2012 Support for LDAP Password Authentication

After checking through your documentation it would appear that when trying to use LDAP password authentication, Active Directory 2012 isn't currently supported. I've raised a support call and your technical team have confirmed this is the case - t...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Delivered

Backup directory-container storage pools to tape

We need the ability to backup or move data from directory-container storage pools to tape.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Command to move/migrate data from legacy storage pool to container pool

With the release of 7.1.3 and the new container pools there is currently no command that will let you migrate data from a legacy storage pool to the new container pool. This makes it much more complicated for us as we have to support multiple stor...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Active directory integration with Tivoli Storage Manager 7.1 to pick existing users

We are looking to enable LDAP Active directory authentication for our Tivoli storage manager applications. But even we integrate TSM with active directory it doesnt picks up the existing users from our active directory organisational unit for auth...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

TSM banner for login via dsmadmc

We have an outstanding audit requirement to be able to define a login banner when logging into TSM via the dsmadmc CLI.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Delivered

Provide detailed sizing guidelines for DB sizing with 7.1.3 deduplication

Current product documentation includes TSM DB sizing guidelines without deduplication, and there are instructions for old TSM dedupe DB impact at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21596944. The impact of deduplication is much lower ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

DBMEMPERCENT - Specify a value under 10 percent

The DBMEMPERCENT value can be set between 10 to 99. In some cases, the value of 10 percent is too high. This value can be set under 10 percent through db2 commands (with the parameter set to automatic in TSM). TSM has to be configured so that te p...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

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