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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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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...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Change QUERY ACTLOG output to match terminal window width

I'm not sure if this RFE applies to the server or dsmadmc client, but the request is to change the behavior of the QUERY ACTLOG command output to stretch (and wrap if necessary) to the current width of the terminal window where it is running.Other...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 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...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Update Management Class for backups/archives in TSM

in our environment TSM is used for data availability (systems and applications backups), and for data retention (archives of historical data).We have the case of files archived all with the same criteria -so the same Management Class- but now we r...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Request for a Server option to prevent the server to pass the communication options for a replication target to a client

Starting with version 7.1 a client can failover to a replication target for restoring data. If the client is enabled and configured for replication on the server, the client receives the communication options for the target and adds the informatio...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Improve effectiveness of node replication process

The effectiveness of the node replication process needs to be improved, when data is located on FILEDEV device class based storage - in order to be better able to utilize the maximum defined number of sessions when possible.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add new command to administrative CLI to pause a script

I suggest you add a command named "wait", the purpose of which would be to pause a script in TSM CLI. For example doing "wait 10" would pause a script for 10 seconds.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Replicate NDMP TOC

NDMP TOC still has to be backed up into a file class, and cannot be replicated. This is unacceptable for the "push everything in the cloud" mentality.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Server database online REORG cancelling running process & sessions

During online IBM Spectrum Protect Server database REORG current running process/sessions are cancelling. I don't have free window to run reorg alone. Below are the tables creating problem 11/10/2017 11:58:26 AM ANR1880W Server transaction was can...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Please implement a "relabel_empty" feature similar to relabel_scratch, VTLs need it

Please implement a "relabel_empty" feature similar to relabel_scratch, VTLs need it. With the "relabel_empty" feature cartridges will be relabeled when they are assigned the status of EMPTY again after being freed up. The write from begin of tape,...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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