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Storage Protect Family

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Spectrum protect, official support for RedHat 8

Hi. There is a need to use RedHat 8 servers. Lacking support for backups on Spectrum Protect
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Releasing space in DB

There is a manual method to Releasing space in DB2 9.7 table spaces. (Online Reorg)Run analyze_DB2_formulas.pl data.And run db2 alter tablespace for tables that can free desirable space (from output of above perl script).This step could be embedde...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Retain last X backups beyond date based expiration

Retain a configurable amount of backups beyond date based retention, requiring administrator action to delete.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

1500 character limit for SQL statements in dsmadmc

Currently there is a limit that commands im dsmadmc can't be longer than 1500 characters else error ANS8028E will be raised.For most commands this limit is fine but for Spectrum Protect server scripts with complex SQL statements this is a real str...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 50 Future consideration

Export node on container pools

The ability to export node data when using container pools
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Less tape-commits with server-processes like Backup Stg, Migration and Reclamation to improve throuput

TSM does a tape-commit (and thus a time-consuming backhitch on the tape drive) every time the backup-date, the nodename, the filespace or even the managementclass within a single filespaces of a single node changes. This is regardless of / precede...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Metadata only Replication for Spectrum Protect

Entering this request on behalf of Kroger Company Provide the ability on the Spectrum Protect Server to Replicate Meta Data only to an alternate Spectrum Protect Server located at a secondary site used as a Disaster Recovery site.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Fix BKI6243E error for HANA with SSL enforced

TSM to work with sslEnforce = True parameter on SAP HANA database
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

Support DELL ECS S3 Object Lock for Spectrum Protect Backup

It is a major Spectrum Protect customer request. This customer already owns DELL ECS and wants to use it to host immutable backups. It should work as it is the case with Spectrum Protect on AWS Object Lock today.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect (TSM) client for Linux on System z has no GUI client since 8.1.2 release

The IBM Spectrum Protect client for System z no longer has a means to access a newer release (8.1.2 or newer) server due to so called improvements in security between clients and server. Previously, clients were able to communicate with the server...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 6 Future consideration

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