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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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More ways to get occupancy on data en dedup storage

In a hosted environment it would be nice, if there were several different/more advanced ways to get occupancy amount for data stored in deduplication storage pools.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Planned for future release

TSM Server version history

Sometimes it is necessary to known what time you did run which version on your TSM server. For example when you may affected by an APAR(IC71049) which should be fixed in the current version you are running, but you still have older volumes affecte...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

Lack of integration with IBM Spectrum Protect

Lack of an integration between IBM Spectrum Protect (SP) and IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management (CDM) using Pure Storage. Lack of this functionality is a major road block to deploy/adoption a supported combination of Pure, CDM and SP solution.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

policy admins need ability to remove replication configuration in order to remove node

We provide TSM as a service and grant policy rights to our server users who create/delete their own nodes, schedules, and the like. Previously, they would delete their own filesystems ande then remove the node. However, since implementing node rep...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Relabel-On-Scratch option for external library manager

When TSM Server recycles (frees) a virtual tape of a VTL this is eliminated from the TSM DB, but not from the VTL. So statistics e.g. Dedup factor are distorted over time. To prevent from this the TSM Relabel-on-Scratch option was introduced. But ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

Improve TSM Replication over high latency WAN links

I would like a TSM server option that would allow TSM to use as many parallel TCP connections as possible in order to maximize throughput along a Long Fat Pipe (WAN link w/ >60ms latency between TSM servers). Alternatively, I would like the TSM...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

ALLOWREORGTABLE as a TSM command

It would be nice if ALLOWREORGTABLE were a TSM command and we didn't have to restart the server and change the dsmserv.opt file. Production systems can't afford to take down the server and start the server in order to make a change like that.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

Update Behavior of TSM Node Fields

The update behavior of several Node fields seems to be strange. e.g. The Field LASTACC_TIME is defined as the "The last date and time that the client node accessed the server". When a node with nodename NodeA tries to logon to a tsm server the ser...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Stronger passwords for TSM

Expanded character set for TSM passwords to meet industry standard complexity requirements. Most places require a password with the following: * Are at least eight alphanumeric characters long* Contain at least three of the following four categori...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Test SnapDiff with NetApp Infinite Volumes in Cluster mode

We need to have SnapDiff tested in Infinite Volumes on NetApps cluster mode. We currently are using NetApps 7-mode, but are in the process of upgrading these appliances to cluter mode. NetApp documentation states third party SnapDiff works in Infi...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Planned for future release

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