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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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    Enhance the deactivate data command with optional filespace parameter

    At this moment, the deactivate data command allows one to deactivate data on the node level only. If the filespace parameter is added to the command, one could use this command to deactivate all data for one (or more) filespaces only. Deactivatein...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    allow encryption of database backups not only for cloud but also for tape and file

    Please allow encryption of database backups not only for cloud but also for tape and file device classes. This is a requirement from security regulations in Germany.
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Create 'Retention set on Tape' for SQL and DB2

    Creating Retention sets on tape are only possible for TDP Vmware/Hyper-V and BAclient; we would like the capability to be extended to DB2 and SQL as well. ANR1017E UPDATE RETRULE: File space SQLREP\SQL02\meta\0000 that belongs to node SQL01N1_SQL ...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Allow Target Server to be specified on Replicate Node

    Allow the the target replication server to be specified on the replicate node command. In addition, document the DOMAIN option on replicate node in online and admin quide.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Ability to configure alert summary email frequency

    IBM Spectrum Protect offers the ability to enable sending an alert summary email up to three admin ids. The option (set alertsummarytoadmins) is not configurable. If you specify an adminid a summary email will be send every hour. Its not possible ...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    1500 character limit for SQL statements in dsmadmc

    Currently there is a limit that commands im dsmadmc can't be longer than 1500 characters else error ANS8028E will be raised.For most commands this limit is fine but for Spectrum Protect server scripts with complex SQL statements this is a real str...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 50 Future consideration

    Servermon (Windows) is using cmd to archive servermon files, located in <instance_dir\srvmon

    To protect our ISP Server environment on Windows against Ransomware attacks, we are using the program Blocky for TSM from Grau Data. We can whitelist all programs and applications to update the critical files in the filesysems, like db, log and in...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Print QR code when setting up MFA in dsmadmc

    The new MFA/TOTP support for admin accounts is great, but it's cumbersome to set up when using dsmadmc due to the need to manually enter the shared secret in the MFA smartphone app. The solution is to print a QR code, and that works fine even in a...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Session status failed -99 received before schedule duration not ended

    Hello, Description: Please be informed that when some SP client is reboot (Because OS patching) during the backup, SP server report event "failed -99". 6/12/24, 22:23:34 ANR0480W Session 2335563 for node [Node_name] (Linux x86-64) terminated - con...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Space and container usage on SP server

    Ever since directory container pools was introduced, the "undocumented / unsupported" command: show sdpool has been the best/only way of managing free, used and unavailable space in the dedup/non-dedup containers. In many cases a manual "move cont...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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