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Storage Protect Family

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    Balanced usage of tape drive generations. Changing behaviour of librarymanager when selecting drive for tape mount.

    The idea is: When using a specific format in a deviceclass, the tapedrives selection alogorithm should not discriminate tapedrives with higher capabilities In an environment with different tapedrive models (for example TS1155 and TS1160) but all d...
    12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

    Enable Storage Protect backup archive client testflag SKIPDATEMISMATCHWARNING for restore and retrieve

    In a replication failover scenario, the Storage Protect backup/ archive client is comparing the local stored last backup/ archive date with the date stored on the Storage Protect server. If the local date is older than the date stored on the Stora...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Under review

    Ability to use the OC Autodeploy feature offline for client upgrades

    Currently, for the OC Auto-deploy feature to upgrade existing clients it requires internet access and connectivity to the IBM repository. I think it will be a good idea to create a repository and manually upload the deployment packages.
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Under review

    A function is required for directory container pools to balance the fill level of multiple storage pool directories

    A function is required for directory container pools to balance the fill level of multiple storage pool directories, especially when an additional storagepool directory is added.Otherwise the Move Container scripts must be generated and started dy...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    IAM functionality via REST API

    I’d like to raise our concern on Storage Protect product violating one of our internal guidelines by being incapable of providing required service. It is expected to manage Storage Protect administrative accounts from enterprise internal Identity ...
    11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Use raid or erasure coding when storing data on tape

    As tape media grows in size, the loss on one tape, maybe 40Tb of data, can be a very harmful. Data should be stored on tapes using erasure coding or raid5 technology. Then data can be recovered and the lost tape can be regenerated. This will great...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Node lock

    Currently node is locked on first incorrect password. Problem is if the user wants a new password and we reset the node password on the server and inform user of the password, the user need to start gui/cli to enter new password. But the first thi...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    cert_distribute.sh script should allow customers to input a list of client nodes

    In the current implementations, the cert_distribute.sh shell script at levels 8.1.21 and 8.1.22 queries the Storage Protect server for all its Storage Protect client nodes, does some filtering to select only supported platforms, and then will asso...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

    For Storage Protect Backup/Archive client add a dsmcad systemd unit file that is instance aware.

    Sometimes it is useful to run multiple dsmcad instances on a single host. Each will backup different file spaces to different tsm backup nodes. To accomplish this additional dsmcad systemd unit files must be created. systemd unit files have this t...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Under review

    gskcrypt64-8.0.55 rpm packages require invalid binary files /bin/ln and /bin/sh

    For a long time RHEL has provided both /bin/X and /usr/bin/X even though the packages only install /usr/bin/X This is true for RHEL7, RHEL8 and RHEL9 The gskcrypt64 package should have been changed a long time ago to require /usr/bin/X components ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Under review

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