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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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SP move data out of CLOUD containers

Once TSM/SP data ends up in a CLOUD pool, there is no way to every move it anywhere else. We should be able to move data out of a cloud pool. MOVE NODADATA might be relevant, but would only work if you could specify source and destination pools. T...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Retention set enhancements for multiple copies and replication

Currently creating multiple copies of retention sets are restricted. Firstly, you cannot create multiple (tape) copies of a single retention set. Secondly, if a node is replicated between multiple SP servers, you cannot create a retention set on b...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Add VMware Tape support to ISP Server

Today ISP is supported as an ESX Guest but with a carve out for tape.https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21239546#VMware%20ESX%20Guest Historically this was due to the ESX 5.x limitation that explicitly did not support tape. VMware h...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

RENAME DEVCLASS

We have to rename some tape based DEVICE CLASSES for organizational reasons.Unfortunately, there is no RENAME DEVCLASS command defined. The DEVICE CLASSES mentioned have storage pools with large amounts of archive data (many PB)with expiration tim...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Support for Azure MFA and other MFA providers

Given the focus on security, it would be of real benefit if the Spectrum Suite of applications (but specifically Protect, Protect Plus, Operations Centre) could support MFA for administrator logon, in particular Azure MFA.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

DRM Manager should support Container Pool

DRM must support container pool.There is no information for container pool in the drm planfile. We need information which offsite/onsite tapes we need to recover container pools. We can checkout the tapes with drm commands but have no information ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Allow Target Server to be specified on Replicate Node

Allow the the target replication server to be specified on the replicate node command. In addition, document the DOMAIN option on replicate node in online and admin quide.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Allow larger than 256 KiB blocks while accessing tape devices

As by TS009588298 we have performance issue while accessing tape drives, and using a larger block size (e. g. 2 Mebibytes instead of the now maximum 256 KiB) is improving performance a lot. This would even make it possible for us to backup the SP-...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Ability to export backup data from directory container Storage pool and mover node data from a Directory Container stgpool

SYSTEM: Product IBM Spectrum Protect ACTOR: User requires additional option of the export/import node to include backup and archive data stored on directory container object storage pool, both on on and off premise.Function to back up a directory ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Ability to configure alert summary email frequency

IBM Spectrum Protect offers the ability to enable sending an alert summary email up to three admin ids. The option (set alertsummarytoadmins) is not configurable. If you specify an adminid a summary email will be send every hour. Its not possible ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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