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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Metadata only Replication for Spectrum Protect

Entering this request on behalf of Kroger Company Provide the ability on the Spectrum Protect Server to Replicate Meta Data only to an alternate Spectrum Protect Server located at a secondary site used as a Disaster Recovery site.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Server Support for RHEL9

Currently RHEL 9.x has been GA for almost a year and is not supported for Storage Protect Server, forcing the use of ageing RHEL 8.x. Many orgs have a requirement to maintain software currency and would like to get their RHEL8->9 projects under...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Output of prepare command need to be send via OC email or copied to an S3 target to support Airgap protection

Output of prepare command need to be send via Operation Center email report (for multiple servers) or copied to an S3 target (e.g. prepare devclass=cloud) to support Airgap protection. Optionally the S3 bucket should be WORM protected.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

move stgpooldir command

I'd like to se a command likemove stgpooldir <oldstgpooldir> <newstgpooldir>that move all containers in one stgpooldir to another automatiacally and in the background.or change the move container command to accept wildcard and a maxnum...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Keyboard shourtcut in DSMADMC

Implementation of keyboard short-cuts for DSMADMC (SP administrative client console).
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Properly manage Archive Mode flag in TS1150/TS1155 tape drives

The IBM TS1150 and TS1155 Enterprise tape drives has a configuration setting called Archive Mode [1] which controls whether archive mode unthread (also called low tension refresh) should be performed on tape unload. In recent firmwares [2] the def...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

Spectrum Protect (TSM) "What's New" Operations Center Feed

Spectrum Protect customers often are unaware when new versions of the solution are released and what relevant new features are added. This often causes issues as the applications and software they are protecting continues to update and requires sp...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

GENERATE BACKUPSET hang on huge amount of data

Based on PMR 54452,740,740, we would like to modify the DB2 schema/indicies, or else to able to generate backupset with huge amount of data stored under a single node.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Add additional commands to IBM Spectrum Protect's command approval infustructure

IBM Spectrum Protect currently has the ability to require approval from two administrators for certain commands. However, commands like REGISTER ADMIN, UPDATE ADMIN, and REMOVE ADMIN are not included in this framework. From a security point of vie...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Retrules for databases and Exchange filespaces

Ability to create long term / ad-hoc achives from already backed-up data is critical to our customers. We can not afford of re-reading the same data under different nodename to store it under different retention policy. There is a need for retenti...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

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