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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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increase IBM Spectrum Protect transfer rates to SWIFT/S3 capable ObjectStore

Current data chunks aggregation rate between TSM's deduplication engine and HTTP PUTs is too low to take full advantage of huge bandwidth SWIFT ObjectStore can provide, especially when Erasure Coded data placements algorithm is used.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

Extend "deactivate data" to other applications, not only limited to Oracle

Currently, the "deactivate data" command is limited to Oracle data. It should be expanded to include the other application data such as DB2, SQL, etc. Also add the filespace option to the command.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

ODBC Enhancements for TSM 6.3

To enable access to data from the TSM Database, TSM until Version 5 enabledODBC using a TSM administrative user with limited authority. Since TSM6,ODBC is via the DB2 ODBC connect.The TSM ODBC connect documentation only describes TSM ODBC access u...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

CAN SE CLIENTNAME=<NODE_NAME>

When running tsm command:Q SE CLIENTNAME=<NODE_NAME>The output can be a numbers of sessions.Therefore it would be great to cancel all sessions in one command:CAN SE CLIENTNAME=<NODE_NAME>
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Tiring by occupancy

Add the ability to define tiring rule, that takes node occupancy into account.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

scheduled command messages are wrapped in activity log - ANR2753I

When ANR messages are logged as a result of commands run inside of an administrative schedule, the messages are wrapped at approx 40 characters. see ANR2753I. This makes programmatic processing of the logs very difficult. Log messages should never...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Collocation for Cloud-Container Storage pool

System: IBM Spectrum Protect v7.1.7 or v8.1 (TSM) Requirement: Customer want to collocate data for Cloud Container STGPOOLWe archive medical data of hundreds of Hospitals (with hundreds of servers) to tape using collocation by node. Collocation op...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Planned for future release

Official support for DB2 HADR in Spectrum Protect Server

Although it is easy to find IBM documents recommending DB2 HADR as a replication solution for Spectrum Protect Server database (f.i. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6212198) it is not oficially supported. For this reason these products are ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Generate Archive set

The amount of data are always growing but the transfer rate between client and server is still very slow and IBM and many other backup software are trying to solve the data transfer by using Duplication. Normally are a client only doing a Archive ...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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