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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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    Enable TCP keepalive also for inbound connections

    Currently the dsmserv enables TCP Keepalive only for outbound connections, as the KEEPALIVE server option describes. However, for the server it's more interesting to have TCP Keepalive for inbound connections in order to be able to detect connecti...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Waiting for Winodws 2019 Server support for Spectrum protect server and BA client

    We need Windows server 2019 server support for the Spectrum protect for the TSM server installation and BA client as well
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

    Enhancment to replicate node commando to only replicate nodes in send or sendsync mode

    I try to create setups without and errors or warnings from housekeeping scripts.I also try to work with opt-out mechanisms as much as possible for customers that agree to use that backup philosophy. When you build a two-way replicating Spectrum Pr...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Improve disk to tape data migration by allowing multiple threads to read data from disk in parallel

    Spectrum Protect (SP) server data migration performance from disk to tape is limited by the data throughput reading data from disk. In this situation the SP server was reading data from disk (flash) with about 90MB/sec.The SP server internal instr...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

    Abort of STGRule ActionType=Copy if no MountPoint is available

    Starting a Storage Rule with ActionType COPY and no Tape MountPoints are available the transaction is aborted by the server.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Opject Agent support for AIX

    Text from following link:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.7/srv.admin/t_object_agent_client_aix.html An IBM Spectrum Protect object agent cannot run directly on an IBM AIX operating system. However, you can offload IBM Spectr...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Support reversal of roles of replication servers which have Retention Sets

    If you have retention sets on either a source or target replication server, you cannot reverse the roles of the replication servers; that is, you cannot make the source server the target server and vice versa. If you do so, data in retention sets ...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Force Cancel Sessions and Processes

    We need to be able to force cancel sessions and processes on the TSM server. This is a must have.
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    It could be nice to have an option like maxsessionspernode in replicate node

    The maxsession option in replicate node is for all node (when using with a nodegroup). So when a run a "replicate node maxsession=20" it could have up to 20 sessions for the last node, so it could have up to 20 filling volumes in the distant node....
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Query for expiry date of cloud connection token

    Query for expiry date of cloud connection token. Currently only notification but need query to know when its getting expire.
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

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