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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

Windows explorer Feature

This demand aims at implementing a new feature providing a windows explorer like feature Please check the attached slides for more details
about 1 year ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

Horizontal scaling of spcetrum environement in Openshift

In order to optimize the general performance of the Discover spectrum environment implemented in Openshift, it seems important to us to consider that benefiting from the horizontal scalability capabilities in Openshift would be a must For example,...
about 1 year ago in Storage Discover 0 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

Rebalancing datamovers for a TAG-based schedule should exclude EXCLUDED VMs

When running a command to rebalance assigned datamovers for a TAG-based schedule I was surprised that the VMs with TAG 'Ecxluded' of category 'Backup Management (IBM Spectrum Protect)' was included and had a datamover-tag assigned. The rebalancing...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

LTO9 drive relative humidity value

LTO9 drive reports snmpt-trap alerts if it's relative humidity value is out of range. This relative humidity value of LTO9 drive should be visible on TS4300 graphical user interface.
over 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

Temporary AWS security credentials for S3 access

Spectrum Protect Plus currently only supports the use of permanent AWS access keys to access S3. This request is for support for access to S3 buckets with temporary AWS credentials. Spectrum Protect Plus should be able to support the rotation of a...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future 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...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 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

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