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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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    Enable a "read only" system administrator for monitoring purposes

    With the introduction of multi factor authentication in Spectrum Protect, administrative access to the software is significantly increased. However, an administrator without MFA must be used for automated monitoring activities. And for the executi...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Easy change certificate on S3 storage agent

    Today the S3 Agent certifikate is catched from the default certifikation on sp server at the the installation of s3 agent. It's not possible to add a new certifikate to the s3 agent certificate store. To change the certificate you must deinstall t...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Abort of STGRule ActionType=Copy if no MountPoint is available

    Starting a Storage Rule with ActionType COPY and no Tape MountPoints are available the transaction is aborted by the server.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Support reversal of roles of replication servers which have Retention Sets

    If you have retention sets on either a source or target replication server, you cannot reverse the roles of the replication servers; that is, you cannot make the source server the target server and vice versa. If you do so, data in retention sets ...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect - Retention Lock for retention sets

    System: Spectrum Protect Server - all platformsActor: User needing new function Description: Request to develop a new feature which can lock a retention set from being deleted prior to its set expiry day. The feature can be termed as "Retention Lo...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

    Better performance/parallelism on generate dedupstats

    It will be usefull to be able to use "generate dedupstats" to generate daily usage information for nodes/nodegroups on a multitenant setup.Unfortunately, the performance of the current "generate dedupstats" makes it impossible for us to generate t...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    selectable DIO/nonDIO-Support on Storagepools

    we are working now in our TSM-Environment with a complete implementation of GPFS as the the filesystem layer for our TSM-Plattfom on AIX and Linux. With the possibility to use many performance function in gpfs we can massively enhance our performa...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    A higher level of algorithm customization is required for adding (or removing) commands for SP "command approval" requests.

    In the current version, it is only possible to enable or disable multiple confirmation of changes in the SP server via a list of commands defined by IBM development. It is not possible to select, remove, or add commands that are important to the c...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

    Enhanced RBAC with command specific granularity

    Implement enhanced RBAC policy configuration based on a per command configuration policy. We want to specify per defined adminitrator which actions/commands can be executed. Command approval as implemented in the latest versions is to limited
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    To use S3 (or Blob) object storage without tsm deduplication as primary storage pools.

    We want to use S3 (or Blob) object storage without tsm deduplication, as similar as for DEFINE STGPOOL (Define a retention storage pool) with cloud device class, but for normal primary stgpool. Compression and encryption should be possible, but wi...
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

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