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Storage Protect Family

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DEACTIVATE DATA command enter a list of nodes, or date range or possibly of another platforms (DB2, SQL) NODEGROUP

Will DEACTIVATE commands be able to be executed to enter a series a series of NODES, or for a NODEGROUP? Will the commands be able to be executed for a certain date range, and not only with the current option of TODATE=TODAY-xx days? Is it planned...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Request the implementation of the duration/starttime/endtime parameters to the define stgrule actiontype=AUDIT

We've configured stgrules to audit containers, but it's impacting backups as we cannot update the stgrule with a duration or stoptime. Other stgrules have the duration and stoptime options, but the 'update stgrule actiontype=audit' doesn't have an...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

NDMP to TSM-Server (NAS filer to server) - enable simultaneous write

NDMP data transfers from NSeries (Netapp) Filers over TCP/IP (NAS to TSM Server Storage) currently does not support simultaneous write into primary and copy storage pools. It seems that the autocopy function is ignoring NDMP/TCP-IP data during ing...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Identification of offsite tapes when a SPP archive restore (with SP) is made ?

SPP archives are sent to LTO tapes with SP.Tapes doesnt stay unto library. if a restore job from an spp archive is executed, we need to know all requested tapes to insert into library when a restore from an archive SPP is made.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Prevent data moving processes starting up when expire inventory is running

Since expire inventory needs to be running more or less alone, preventing other datamoving tasks from running could reduce amount of failures to the DB tables that would render future expire inventory run into errors. Maybe something like this ex...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Enable dsmreconcile to run on arbitrary HSM nodes

We are currently developing a large archive solution based on IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management. In the particular setup we make heavy use of the Multiserver functionality of ISP for Space Management for scalability ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

Communicate AWS S3 by using Private Endpoint VPC instead of public internet from ISP.

Hi Team, Communicate AWS S3 by using Private Endpoint VPC instead of public internet from ISP. Security concern the AWS services to access via VPC only. Can you please update is IBM working development?. If yes, which version VPC option is available?
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

Make a setting that indicates internet access available or not

Secure installations does not grant internet access to any hosts directly, neither in nor out From fw logs, we can see that SPP tries to connect to outside servers, and that causes just noise in logs. I would like settings that enables or disables...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Cloud Tiering by filespace for non-VM nodes

DEFINE SUBRULE LONGTERM LEGALHOLD LEGALHOLD001 ACT=TIERBYAGE TIERD=62 MAXPROC=20 FILESPACE="/longterm" ANR1998E DEFINE SUBRULE: Invalid value for FILESPACE parameter - /longterm The documentation does not clearly state, and only vaguely alludes to...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

STA path need to update after drive replacement

As an example of TS3200 LTO6 drives which we have in our infra whenever we found any drive issue and after replacement of this drive we are getting new serial number and same we are updating on tsm server with below command upd dr libraryname driv...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 0 Functionality already exists

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