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Storage Protect Family

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Schedule policy/job to execute every 4th saturday of the month

Policy can be set to start on the day of the month (1st, 2nd,...) and can be set to start at Saturday but repeat it every 4 weeks, because some months have 5 weeks it's not acceptable. We need it to be set(because of load) every 4th saturday of th...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Connect to an AWS S3 bucket with an IAM Role

Our customer wants Spectrum Protect to be able to connect to an AWS S3 Bucket using an IAM Role without the need of the access key and the secret key. Today other products are able to do it.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future 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

TSM API for IBMi

The TSM API is no longer supported on an IBMi. During our upgrade to V7.1 we opened a PMR because we had a question/problem but the PMR was closed with a resolution that the API is not supported.We implemented an IBMi to TSM solution as a logical ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

SSD Cache for Archive backup extraction

we are using SP as a backup repository in order to archive backups from SPP to tape. during archive backup. the data is compress at the vsnap, stored to colddatacache pool and then migrated to tape on the SP server. the restoration process is the ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

SCOM Management Pack for Spectrum Protect, Sectrum Protect Plus.

A management pack for the management of Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus in System Center Operation Manager.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

UPD SCHED RANDOMIZE=##

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

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...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Add tunable to enable increase disk IO block size from 256kB

The TSM server on Linux is currently using Direct IO with a 256kB block size when doing IO to/from DISK/FILE volumes. The decision to use 256kB was made a long time ago, and the current state of technology is that this block size is simply to smal...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 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...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

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