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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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    Import the data from tape and sequential volumes, written from other IBM Storage Protect servers

    Why is it useful? This feature will help with restoring/retrieving data from the tapes, which may have expired in database and also if the tapes are owned/written by other SP server. Who will benefit from it? This feature will help in DR tests, wh...
    12 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    IBM Storage protect setup for safeguarded tape functionality

    We are finding a description of the setup and recommendations for Storage Protect in combination with Safeguarded Tape.
    about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    AlwaysOn Servermon should be able to automatically cleanup old datacollections in the instance_home/srvmon directory

    Multiple of our SP server instances experienced an issue which prevented AlwaysOn Servermon from starting up.The servermon log files show that servermon is crashing at startup.We found that servermon is crashing at startup because there are a lot ...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Handle return code of dsmrecall command properly

    This could be useful for those who come from Spectrum Archive. In Spectrum Archive the "eeadm recall" command returns 0 (success) not only if a list of migrated files is passed, but also for premigrated and resident files (it simplly skips P and R...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Support incremental data transfer to cloud archive target (not require full retention set).

    Currently, the only way to send data to a cloud archive target (S3 Glacier, IBM Cloud archive or accelerated archive) is to create a retention pool and then send a retention set. When using the cloud archive target, the retention set is always a f...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Extend node replication to allow it to also replicate decommissioned state of nodes

    In a replication environment (data and metadata is replicated from source to target server) it is currently not possible to "decomm node" for nodes that are replicated. One has to first disable replication for nodes before being able to decommissi...
    2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Storage Rule-COPY: hydrated tape copies directly on the Target pool by using copy storage rules

    We want to make copy of our Primary Disk based Directory Container pool into Replication server but directly on tape (hydrated tape copies), so we can directly be able to restore the data using BA client at our DR location as well as no need to re...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Support for Azure Blob Storage Cold tier in TSM Server

    Microsoft Azure Blob Storage offers three online access tiers: Hot, Cool, and Cold.According to current documentation and support statements, the IBM TSM Server (Tivoli Storage Manager) currently supports only the Hot and Cool tiers. From a techni...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Allow repair stg to use any storage pool from target replication server to recover data

    Configuration: Replica source Storage is container pool only Copy pool exist on tape Replica target Storage is container pool with tiering to tape or S3 after X days Copy pool exist on tape Scenario When the source detects a bad file/object with a...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    A higher level of algorithm customization is required for adding (or removing) commands for SP "command approval" requests.

    In the current version, it is only possible to enable or disable multiple confirmation of changes in the SP server via a list of commands defined by IBM development. It is not possible to select, remove, or add commands that are important to the c...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

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