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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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ANR2836E Policy creation failed because no storage pool is available in which to save client deployment packages.

Since I upgraded to ISP Version 8.1.7 I get the following errors: 15:01:47 ANR2836E Policy creation failed because no storage pool is available in which to save client deployment packages.15:01:47 ANR2837E The creation of the IBM_DEPLOY_CLIENT pol...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Disable the necessary SMB V1 to install product of TSM throught Installation Manager

Install Tivoli Storage Manager products using the Installation Manager it is necessary to have enable the SMB1 protocol.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Support for Cloud Containers (such as COS/Cleversafe) from Linux on Power

Currently we have clients moving from old Power 7 boxes to new Power 8 boxes who want to start a new TSM server on Linux In addition clients are keen on COS/Cleversafe for more than just TSM. The lack of Cloud Container support from Linux on Power...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM Node replication should report warning instead of failure when associated node cannot be replicated

TSM 7.1.x reports a replication failure when a client node that has been setup for replication has an associated node which is not setup for replication or is a Receive Node. Replication succeeds, but process result is FAILURE, which is not the ca...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

ReFS and S2D support for Spectrum Protect server on Windows

The IBM Spectrum Protect server installation on Windows does currently not support the resiliant filesystem (ReFS) from Microsoft as underlying filesystem due to restrictions of supported filesystems for the DB2 database. The Spectrum Protect team...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Cancel process ALL

Add extra Cancel Process options - Cancel Process ALL- Cancel pro migration (or cancel migration)- Cancel pro backup (or cancel backup) For each process name a Cancel command. Cancel Expiration and Cancel Export already exists.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

REST style API for administrative purposes

An API towards the TSM server is desirable, in order to be able to automate functions other applications/services - instead of having to build wrappers for the administrative command-line.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Encryption of Server2Server Volumes

We'd like to get a possibility to use encryption on any device class protected by the current IBM Spectrum Protect Instance. Especially using server2server virtual volumes on another IBM Spectrum Protect Server, needs the data stored on the target...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 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.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Expand "SET FAILOVERHLADDRESS" to node granularity

On Server Version 7.1 a function "SET FAILOVERHLADDRESS " was introduced to allow the failover IP to be different then the IP used for replication, this is a step in the right direction. However on TSM Servers with multiple IP's with clients in di...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration