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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Stronger passwords for TSM

Expanded character set for TSM passwords to meet industry standard complexity requirements. Most places require a password with the following: * Are at least eight alphanumeric characters long* Contain at least three of the following four categori...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

MOVE NODEDATA command enhancement

One form of the MOVE NODEDATA command allows the movement of selected file spaces of a single node between storage pools. For example, MOVE NODEdata node_name FROMstgpool=source_pool_name TOstgpool=destination_pool_name FIlespace=file_space_name H...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

configure Tape drive Cleaning Frequency after written TB or used time instead of "as needed" or "999MB"

The default available Cleaning Frequency managed by TSM is restricted to 999GBSince LTO the recommended Frequency is based on working (write) hours for about 100hr or TB of written Data.For HP Drives it is recommended to clean every 100 R/W-hours....
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

support Ceph S3 as Cloud Container storage backed

please add Ceph S3 (using the rados gateway) as a supported Cloud Container storage backed
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Incremental backup support in NDMP based backup for IBM TSM 7.1.

Require Incremental backup support for NDMP based backup in IBM TSM.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Rebinding Archives between management classes

We have two managment classes for archiving data; one mgmt class expires archives after twelve months (temp mgmt class) and the other does not expire archives( never expires). We have a requirement to set some of the archives under temporary mgmt ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Automatic Backup of DB when Active Log becomes full

when the Active Log become full the TSM Server Crashes. why not implement the same functionality as Archive Log ?? Archive Log when it reaches 80% a database backup is triggered to be able to reclaim space
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

move nodedata by backup date

I would like to have the option to use the MOVE NODEDATA command with a selection of a range of backup dates. As it is today the finest selection is based on the filespace, but inside the filespace there are several backup dates, that could be sel...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

query mount enhancements

It would be very nice to have some enhancements to query mount like q mount LIBNAME--> show all mounts within the library q Mount LIBNAME showall=yes--> show all drives and mount state relating to the library
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Prevent reorg of BF_SUPER_AGGREGATES to kill restore tasks

Whenever a reorg of BF_SUPER_AGGREGATES finishes, restore of SQL data fails. Disabling reorg for this DB is not practical, since restore tasks are starting up 24/7, and the tsm admin does not know when. Some other tool must be present to prevent t...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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