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Storage Protect Family

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Offload to multiple Spectrum Protect Repositories

Current problem is, only one Spectrum Protect Repository can be adressed using accesskey and secret key. But we need to offload to multiple servers, due to contingency reasons. We think restriction does not make any sense, and we were glad if this...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect - update LASTACC_TIME when a target node is replicated to

Hi, In Spectrum Protect, when a node in a replicated pair is replicated to (when it is the target) the LASTACC_TIME does not update. We often use the LASTACC_TIME to determine if a node is still in use, if the LASTACC_TIME is over X days then we d...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Logfiles that would include all execution outputs

Currently the TDPSQLC.exe has a LOGFILE option that only outputs the summary of its execution. Today, if I wish to see the summary and the execution of each database backup I need to provide both the LOGFILE and a redirected log path such that I c...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Passwordless db2 upgrade

During IBM SP Server upgrade, from the version 8.1.11.0 DB2 SP instance credentials has to be validated due to DB2 major update.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Display filespace occupancy per Storage Pool in API

Display the "FSLOGICALMB" for all used storage pools of the filespace at the API "oc/api/servers/{server}/clients/{client}/filespaces".to bee non disruptive to the existing data format do this by adding a dictionary containing the storage pool and...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

TSM4VE Cleanup Abandoned Snapshots

TSM4VE should track its own snapshots, and periodically clean these up if no active backups are using those snapshots. Presently, if a backup is aborted, or proxy node rebooted, or etc., the VMWare snapshots created by that backup are never cleane...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Migrate Container pool in same TSM server

Migrate data between Container pools in same TSM server is not possible at the moment, The only way to do this is to set up a node replication to another tsm server.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Hana DB & Log filsystem split

For our regular restore test we do export/import between zone server and central one.If we want to export a DB backup and 7 days of logs we have the problem that all of this goes to the same filesystem /tdpmux and if we export from a ranged period...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

UPD SCHED RANDOMIZE=##

Requesting to allow setting a schedule randomization override for specific schedules.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Add functionality to TSM Operations Center related to Tape Drives Usage/Mounts Reports

System: Spectrum Protect Operations CenterActor: Spectrum Protect Operations CenterUser needing reporting features to assess tape drives usage/mounts in order to provide analysis for future needs in tape drive growth/usage. Description: Operations...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 0 Not under consideration