What's new in IBM Spectrum Archive Enterprise Edition 1.3.2

Read about information that is new or changed in the IBM Spectrum® Archive Enterprise Edition 1.3.2 documentation.

Table 1. Spectrum Archive EE 1.3.2 changes, released on September 2021
Changes Related topics
  • Added the support for LTO 9 drive.
  • Added a new section "Restrictions on drive operations" to describe the limitations on the usability of read/write operation of a drive due to manual configuration or media/drive compatibility.
  • Added the support for system migration using SOBAR to relocate all files in the file system managed by IBM Spectrum Archive to the new file system.
  • Added a note for SOBAR commands under "Limitations with IBM Spectrum Scale" section.
  • Added the description for Recommended Access Order (RAO) option to the command line references.
  • Added the support of using Recommended Access Order (RAO) function in IBM TS11xx and LTO 9 drives by adding a new column "RAO" to table 1.
  • Added a new command line topic eeadm cluster restore and sub-topic eeadm cluster restore command output to describe the deleted SOBAR resident files.
  • Added a new option -P with description.
  • Modified CLUSTER mode syntax
  • Added RESTORE_CONFIG
  • Modified the description for -f option.
  • Modified the description for Security-Enhanced Linux® (SELinux).
  • Added a note stating that Spectrum Archive EE dashboard requires the EE node and monitoring servers to run on x86_64 platform.
  • The "JVM" operating software was moved to the top of the list with a short note.
The description for "Before you begin" section was modified to describe the requirements for upgrading the operating system from RH7.x to RH 8.x.
The description for the "mounting" drive state was updated.
The "Used port number" column with details for 7620 and RPC daemon port was divided into two rows.
Added the description for "failure code" output.
Modified the output examples for tape reclaim, tape datamigrate, and tape replace commands.

What's new in version 1.3.2.x fix pack releases

Table 2. Spectrum Archive EE 1.3.2.5 changes, released on March 2022
Changes Related topics
Updated the HSM component version to 8.1.14.0
Added information on the unexpected missing state of a tape drive.
Added information on the stack size for Spectrum Archive EE.
Table 3. Spectrum Archive EE 1.3.2.4 changes, released on February 2022
Changes Related topic
Updated the HSM component version to 8.1.13.3.
Modified the ltfsee_install --upgrade command example to show the correct command name on step 5.
Added a note to describe a new task that fails when the number of active tasks reaches to a maximum limit of 500 by default, and then the user must retry the same command.
Modified the description of the amount of free memory for each tapes specified in the command line parameter.
Table 4. Spectrum Archive EE 1.3.2.2 changes, released on December 2021
Changes Related topics
Updated the HSM component version to 8.1.13.1. Related topic
Modified the content for redistribution of 3rd party package. Related topic
Table 5. Spectrum Archive EE 1.3.2.1 changes, released on December 2021
Changes Related topics
  • Added support for RHEL 8.4.
  • Added support for IBM Spectrum Scale 5.1.2.x.
  • Updated the HSM component version to 8.1.13.
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Added description for returning the node to operation in a multiple node cluster. Related topic
Added new topic "Sparse File" for the "Supported files" section. Related topic
Fixed the examples of migration and pre-migration policy for Manual migration and premigration with the mmapplypolicy command section. Related topic
  • Updated the section with correct examples for Ensuring that IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management is operating subtopic.
  • Updated the example for IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management settings in the /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsm.opt file.
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Added new option --limit-filesystems for the eeadm tape export command.
Note: This function was available from Spectrum Archive EE 1.3.2.
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