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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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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

Connect to an AWS S3 bucket with an IAM Role

Our customer wants Spectrum Protect to be able to connect to an AWS S3 Bucket using an IAM Role without the need of the access key and the secret key. Today other products are able to do it.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect - update LASTACC_TIME when a target node is replicated to

Hi, In Spectrum Protect, when a node in a replicated pair is replicated to (when it is the target) the LASTACC_TIME does not update. We often use the LASTACC_TIME to determine if a node is still in use, if the LASTACC_TIME is over X days then we d...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Migrate Container pool in same TSM server

Migrate data between Container pools in same TSM server is not possible at the moment, The only way to do this is to set up a node replication to another tsm server.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Qumulo SMB backup API integration

Integration with Qumulo API to eliminate the long/timely treewalk to see which files/folders have changed.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Design change to avoid deletion of Backup Data from a malicious hacker, mentally disturbed or very angry at his workplace

The following is a suggestion to ensure that Backup Data cannot be deleted by malicious hackers, internal Backup administrators who are very angry at their workplace or mentally disturbed. The proposal is to create a minimum of 5 Backup Admin Appr...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

UPD SCHED RANDOMIZE=##

Requesting to allow setting a schedule randomization override for specific schedules.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Passwordless db2 upgrade

During IBM SP Server upgrade, from the version 8.1.11.0 DB2 SP instance credentials has to be validated due to DB2 major update.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Communicate AWS S3 by using Private Endpoint VPC instead of public internet from ISP.

Hi Team, Communicate AWS S3 by using Private Endpoint VPC instead of public internet from ISP. Security concern the AWS services to access via VPC only. Can you please update is IBM working development?. If yes, which version VPC option is available?
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

Add tunable to enable increase disk IO block size from 256kB

The TSM server on Linux is currently using Direct IO with a 256kB block size when doing IO to/from DISK/FILE volumes. The decision to use 256kB was made a long time ago, and the current state of technology is that this block size is simply to smal...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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