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Storage Protect Family

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Analoga to QUERY OCCUPANCY

For Nodes with complex data structure is often not enough to get information at the end of dsmc q ba "Path_to_objects/*" -subdir=yes -ina -querysummary with Total Data etc. More detailed aggregated information with backup/archive data amount and n...

Change the IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Microsoft SQL Server autoselect to select backups prior to the backup endtime, instead of the backups prior to the backup starttime

The LSN (Log Sequence Number) checkpoint is created when an SQL backup concludes. This can lead to the autoselect function in IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Microsoft SQL Server, selecting a log backup between the Difffuls or Full backups start...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

Need Support for Open Enterprise Server (OES) OS which is LINUX Distribution

My customer just upgraded his supported OES to a newer version and are being told by IBM that it's no longer support on Spectrum Protect. This OS has been supported in the past (see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/linux-x8664-requirements-ibm-st...

XS & XXS blueprint confguration for ISP

One of our customer is planning to migrate his ISP (8.1.16) to a new HW with latest ISP version. Customer's existing setup is quite small & was implemented as per blueprint guidelines. His current Db size is 110GB with container pools size of ...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Add monthly projections to the IBM Storage Protect (TSM) sizer tool

The IBM Storage Protect Sizer tool does not provide monthly projections...only yearly projections. We would like the IBM Storage Protect Sizing tool to be enhanced to also give monthly projections. This is particularly of interest to plan deliver ...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Customer-managed encryption keys with KJM support in GCP Buckets

Why is it useful? Enabling CMEK support with KMS for GCP buckets provides Enhanced Security, Compliance Requirements, Key Rotation and Management, Data Sovereignty Who would benefit? Banking Customers, Customers with strict encryption requirements...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Allow filespace deletion for non-replicated nodes without blocking replication stgrule execution

Currently, a replication storage rule fails when a delete filespace is already running. The following messages is issued: ANR1079E Storage rule REPLICATION did not start a tiering process because a DELETE FILESPACE operation is in progress. I can ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Extension of the Table "Replicationview" by the columns batchesQ and batchesD

Hello, the command "show replication" shows the number of "batchesQ" and "batchesD".Is it planned to implement the number of "batchesQ" and "batchesD" in the table REPLICATIONVIEW?Currently I can't find any columns in this table regarding this. En...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

Support for LSA (Local Security Authority)

It would be beneficial for everyone when it comes to security.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

To Improve Communication Between Spectrum Protect Server (on Windows Platform) and VTL (Fujitsu Eternus CS)

1. There is no option to define control path failover for medium changer (or timeout value for this), so whenever there is VLP failover in VTL or even small connection break, TSM immediately reports Library is not accessible and if we have volumes...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review