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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Enhance Spectrum Protect to use Tapefunction Recomended Access Order for repair stg Containerpool from Tape.

The current support of tapefunction in Protect has more then one gaps in the area off use tape storage. The main concerns are the support of tape in the relation to containerstg. These current designs generate a alongated repair time if we want to...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Optimize migration algorythm of seq. storagepool to collocated storagepool

Short:When migrating data from a file pool to a collocated tape pool a large number of mounts occur in the tape pool causing throughput to go down and maintenance can not complete in time. Setup:Data flowClient > (backup) > file pool > (m...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Add security certificate expiration date to "query status" output

Current options for viewing security certificate include an actlog entry when the server is started and an option to toggle on an ANR message for every session. Having the expiration date in the query status output would make an easy way for custo...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

External storage level immutability integration in application level

Currently there is a workaround provided by Dell to present Data Domain DD Boost storage units as BoostFS mount points and eventually storage pool to Storage Protect server. In this way, one can take advantage of high deduplication rate, encryptio...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Change the number of invalid logon attempts from lock the account or the node to a ban/black list of ip address

Starting with IBM Spectrum® Protect 8.1.15, the minimum number of invalid logon attempts that are allowed before a node or administrator account is locked is changed from 0 to 1. The maximum number of invalid logon attempts that are allowed is 10....
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Migrate/Tier older data from containerpool to tape

Hello, we use large file pools for our backups, these pools store a number of days of backups, then older/cold data get migrated to tape.Currently we have some severe pains with the file pools when migration is done to a collocated storagepool, se...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Native support for Spectrum protect Server HA on RHEL cluster

Toyota Kirloskar Motor Ltd (TKML) has recently changed there Spectrum protect server from AIX to RHEL. Customer was using Power HA based high availability solution for Spectrum protect server previously and now is expecting the same capability on ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Automate scan and fix of "unavailable" containers for Spectrum Protect servers

Today I found that a number of vm's did not backup snapshots to the (container based) storage pool. This happened before and points to the error: ANS9351E Data was not available on server and was skipped. Processing snapshot ----------------------...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Future consideration

Restrict TSM admin users

Please find a way to restrict TSM admin users to VIEW ONLY. In order to use third party monitoring software and use admin credential for TSM view only (admin schedule results, stg pools etc)
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

OSSM data offload to tape via stgrule

We need air-gaped copy of all our data stored in directory pool containers. Almost half of the data is OSSM, however storagerule actiontype=copy does not offload OSSM data to cpoy pool.
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

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