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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Allow TSM client logs to be brought back to server for analysis when server staff do not have access to client file system

Allow TSM staff to bring back and use the TSM client logs to determine issues and error conditions at the time of backup failures
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect for IBM i BRMS

As per Jeff's email belowFrom: Jeff Fosmo/Rochester/IBM@IBMUSTo: David Bhaskaran/Rochester/IBM@IBMUSCc: Jose Mao-Cheia/South Africa/IBM@IBMZA, Deon George/Australia/IBM@ibmau, Paul Maguire/UK/IBM@ibmgb, Redouane Acheche1/United Arab Emirates/IBM@i...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

DELETE FILESPACE FROM STORAGE POOL (ESPECIALLY COPY)

Allow DELETE FILESPACE to specify a storage pool. i.e. delete filespace <nodename> <filespace> stgpool=<stgpool>
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM deduplicated data in an offsite copy storage pool

Customer Lyle Fast wants to request a change to the way TSM works regarding deduplicated data in an offsite copy storage pool. TSM recommends that offsite storage pools have a fully hydrated copy local and any offsite copies are non-deduplicated. ...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Support for Sony Library ODS-L30M

Support for Sony optical libraries (Sony ODS-L30M).Increase the support list in optical libraries for Spectrum Protect (TSM)
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM should support NDMP backup with VTL libtype

TSM Server should support NDMP backups with libtype VTL. It's documented that generally backups are faster when using a VTL and libtype is set to VTL instead of SCSI. Due to the limitation of TSM libtype VTL cannot be used as NDMP backups are not ...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

Changing Retention between Source and Target Replicated Nodes

We need the ability to have different retentions between on the source and target for each replicated node. That way we can store active data for the short term on the source and change the replicated node to long term retention.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Request for Function to decompress data for Storage Pool Migration

Request for function to decompress Data for Storage Migration pool. Currently, we have difficulty to migrate the Data backed up in Physical Tape Drive to new VTL Drive (Protectier + XIV) Data backed up in current Physical Tape Drive is compress by...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to logically group multiple storage pool as 'Storage Groups'

Currently, all housekeeping jobs are done on a per storage pool basis. e.g.PARALLELmigrate stg pool1 lo=0 wait=yesmigrate stg pool2 lo=0 wait=yesmigrate stg pool3 lo=0 wait=yesSERIAL PARALLELreclaim stg pool1 thr=50 wait=yesreclaim stg pool2 thr=5...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Allow the use of cloud container pool as replication source

At present, cloud container pools can be used as a replication target but not replication source. This is an issue as it means if the replication source server is destroyed or becomes unavailable, it is not possible to replicate the data back to a...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration