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Storage Protect Family

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Allow filespace deletion for non-replicated nodes without blocking replication stgrule execution

Currently, a replication storage rule fails when a delete filespace is already running. The following messages is issued: ANR1079E Storage rule REPLICATION did not start a tiering process because a DELETE FILESPACE operation is in progress. I can ...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Improvement of usability by implementing a HOST command in dsmadmc

By using a HOST command or special character, commands can be issued at operating system level and you do not have to log out of dsmadmc.
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Extension of the Table "Replicationview" by the columns batchesQ and batchesD

Hello, the command "show replication" shows the number of "batchesQ" and "batchesD".Is it planned to implement the number of "batchesQ" and "batchesD" in the table REPLICATIONVIEW?Currently I can't find any columns in this table regarding this. En...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

Add ability to export data by management class using the export node command

I propose that the TSM export node command is enhanced so that specific management classes are targeted for extraction. This will enable administrators to extract specific data ( typically long term data ) and leave out all the unnecessary data. T...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Cross platform migration: Linux x86 to AIX

Allow TSM to restore its database from a Linux x86 server to an AIX server.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Data Retention - restrict interaction with node data to node user

We use Spectrum Protect whit Data Retention enabled to store archive data.nobody besides the application should be able to delete single files that are stored in spectrum protect. We work with event based retention. If the event is set from the ap...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

default custom ID required on Spectrum Protect Server Install

Currently a new built of TSM server 8.1 does not create the "admin/admin" ID like it was done with 5.5 versions. THis creates a problem with build automation where it requires a extra step to register a ID adding to build time.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Add an option to remove configuration mode in TSM4VE

We user the TSM4VE GUI to restore VM and files. At login the configuration mode is checked by default. If the user forget to uncheck it, he enters in the configuration wizard. We are supposed to use the VMWARE Plugin to restore but we have two TSM...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

add support for PowerHA AIX cluster configuration for File system backup and restore

DCU (Customer) did a CDM snapshot across the 2 AIX servers. Then a situation came up where they had a need to do a restore and it failed with the exception “com.catalogic.ecx.ibmsvcprovider.exception.IBMSVCExecCommandException: CMMVC9071E: Cannot ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

TSM4VE Cloud Service Provider Mode

Because of all ransomware attacks we see more transformations from other backup vendors back to IBM Storage Protect for VE, but the issue with TSM4VE is that it demanding a System Account in the Storage Protect Server to be able to work, we have d...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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