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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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    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.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Keyboard shourtcut in DSMADMC

    Implementation of keyboard short-cuts for DSMADMC (SP administrative client console).
    over 5 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...
    about 7 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...
    about 10 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.
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Provide ENABLECLOUDDATALock on cloud container stgpools also for Azure blob storage.

    We need the option ENABLECLOUDDATALock on cloud container stgpools also for Azure blob storage, it is working for AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage, but actually not for Azure blob.
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

    Update Certificate without restarting Storage Protect instance

    Currently if the certificate is going to be replaced by a new one, this operation requires an instance stop and start. The certificate insertion into the certificate DB can be done at any time, also setting it as the default certificate. But the i...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    command approval- Non approver can promote himself as "approver"

    The existing admin who was not configured as Approver can issue the command "update admin admin1 cmdapprover=yes" and promote himself as approver and approve for the his / others pending tasks. Its violating the purpose of having such feature.
    over 4 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...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect 8.1.7 Retrule for NDMP data

    Client have requirement to retain the NDMP data for long term retention. We have upgraded the Spectrum Protect servers from 8.1.6 to 8.1.7 and tried to enable the retrule for NDMP data. But unfortunately that feature is not enabled for NDMP /datam...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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