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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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    Backup of TSM / Spectrum Protect Directory Container Pools

    The new directory container storage pools are unable to perform migrations to other storage pools. This can be "hacked", if you will, by backing up the directory container files themselves to another storage pool that can migrate to tape devices. ...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

    Exclude nodes from expiration

    Currently expiration runs by node or domain or everything. Node should have option to be included or excluded in standard expiration.
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

    Spectrum Protect server v8.1.x with SLES v12 on Power LE

    Spectrum Protect v8.1.x server:Customer is building a complete SAP HANA on SLES v12 running on POWER LE. Spectrum Protect for HANA is supported on SLES v12 on POWER LE.In order to be consistent and ease of use, customer would like to run Spectrum ...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

    SP Operation Center backup success rate improvement

    On the Operation Center, backup success rate is calculated by every node that is registered to the TSM Servers. However, this is not correct approach on every customer environment.
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

    Endtime like parameter on replicate command to limit runtime on process

    An option to be able to specify an endtime for a replication job to run to is desired. This way it would be possible to start a replication job, and have it stop automatically .e.g. at 07:30:00 - without having another administrative schedule to c...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

    TSM Banner for login

    Ability to define a login banner for any CLI or GUI TSM Admin login e.g. Define the login banner on the TSM using an external txt file:Define loginbanner file=/full/path/to/file.txt
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

    Change of srvmon directory to different path instead of instance path

    Our instance home directory which is 20 GB in size is getting full as the hidden collection folder in srvmon directory is using up to 15 GB of the space in instance directory before it can get purged.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

    IBM Spectrum Protect - Active Directory 2012 Support for LDAP Password Authentication

    After checking through your documentation it would appear that when trying to use LDAP password authentication, Active Directory 2012 isn't currently supported. I've raised a support call and your technical team have confirmed this is the case - t...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Delivered

    Need steps on how we can integrate SPserver with QRADAR SIEM for application threat detection

    Useful in integration of QRADAR SIEM with the sp server. And what events to be monitored for the threat detection on sp server?
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

    Move TSM DB2 tempspace to a separate filesystem

    TSM can crash unexpectedly. The DB2 logs indicated that the tempspace ran out of space due to heavy SQL transaction, suspected at the time to be a custom data collection script for TSM monitoring, although not confirmed. This can now be reproduced...
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

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