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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Automatic failover/failback target replication server for Backup &Archive operations

Automatic failover/failback target replication server for Backup &Archive operations.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

NDMP backups to the cloud

Our customer is rolling out 24 Spectrum Protect servers, and we have found that there is no way to get NDMP into the cloud. Also, NDMP TOC data cannot be replicated at all. Because AIX does not support CIFS mounting Azure (requires SMBv3, which wa...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

Users should not be able to view every other users' filespaces

Currently, any authorised user of TSM can view the list of filespaces owned by any other user (provided that user is running on the same platform) by giving the "fromnode" argument to 'query filespace' in dsmc, for instance:> q fi -fromnode="my...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

DECOMMISSION NODE/VM with Enddate

Add date parameter to DECOMMISION NODE and DECOMMISSION VM command.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Active Directory integration with TSM

Full Active Directory integration required as a single sign on solution
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Point in Time Restore facility

With DB2 as core of TSM to reduce the impact and time to restore a TSM-DB we want to have a function like point in time restore capability. These Function enable us to reduce our outage window in an case of an disaster.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

A setting or flag to prevent files from migrating if they are not yet replicated

Spectrum Protect is replicating file that have already been migrated to tape
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Use seperate TCP port for node replication - preferably only communication initiated from the source server

When using node replication, it should be possible to specify a seperate TCP port, that can be used for node replication (and the dsmadmc command line should not be able to communicate on this port).From a network security perspective, it is not a...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Drive preference in a mixed-media library sharing environment

TSM supports multiple media types in a single library definition. It handles these through media type information reported by the physical library,combined with the drive read and write format lists provided by the drives. Unfortunately, in this c...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Central gui for agents

New GUI that you can install on a machine and then use to add all your backup agents, and where you can centrally manage backup/options/restore, and maybe even read log files.
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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