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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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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.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Spectrum Protect server should be able to display what clients are sending 'pre-deduplicated' data

either in operations center, or with a simple select statement, it should be possible to display if a client is actually sending deduplicated data to the Spectrum protect server.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 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 9 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
almost 10 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...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Delivered

support for LTO8 drives

support for LTO8 tape drives
over 6 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 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

TSM Server should show TDP version, not API version.

As it is today, if the user tries to see detailed information about a TDP node on the TSM server, it not shows the TDP version but the API version.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Duration Limit on Node Replication

Our company has a need to use node replication, but we have to restrict its operation to a limited daily window. We would like to see a duration parameter similar in function to the one provided with the expiration command. As things stand now, so...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Support Amazon AWS for storage pools in TSM

Support Amazon AWS and other lower cost cloud storage providers for storage in TSM pools
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

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