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Search results: Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Optimize migration algorythm of seq. storagepool to collocated storagepool

Short:When migrating data from a file pool to a collocated tape pool a large number of mounts occur in the tape pool causing throughput to go down and maintenance can not complete in time. Setup:Data flowClient > (backup) > file pool > (m...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Litigation Hold Property on File Spaces.

Provide an ability to prevent expiration processing to occur for a file space when a node becomes part of a "Litigation Hold" issue. The status of enabled would over-ride expiration processing of files/folders in the file space. Microsoft Exchange...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

selectable DIO/nonDIO-Support on Storagepools

we are working now in our TSM-Environment with a complete implementation of GPFS as the the filesystem layer for our TSM-Plattfom on AIX and Linux. With the possibility to use many performance function in gpfs we can massively enhance our performa...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect - Retention Lock for retention sets

System: Spectrum Protect Server - all platformsActor: User needing new function Description: Request to develop a new feature which can lock a retention set from being deleted prior to its set expiry day. The feature can be termed as "Retention Lo...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

retenrule with individual filespaces

The new feature retention rule does not allow to define individual filespaces for an BA/aR Client.This parameter is only supported for vm backups.The feature retention rule / retention sets should be an alternative to the backupsets.The backupset ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Provide a simple administrative command to show the the total size of backed-up data on a server instance on a given single day (24 hours)

While it is required to size the replication server pairs, the product does not provide a simple administrative command to show the total size of backed-up data on a server instance on a given single day (24 hours). Currently, the only way to get ...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Archive log utilization query

TSM 6.1 and up have no way to show the archive log utilization in the admin client. This seems to be an oversight. The query log command should be able to display this info. It should also be available via a select statement. The only way to get t...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 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...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 50 Future consideration

ANR2034E should be INFO and not ERROR

It's annoying that there's an error logged just because I ran query mount and nothing was mounted (maybe that was a good thing). This is how it currently looks on one of our servers, 184644 counts of ANR2034E, second place is 938. That's a lot of ...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

SP Operations Center group assign Alerts

Add a functionality to manage (assign and close) Alerts faster and in groups (bulk selections) in the Spectrum Protect Operations Center. Or make the assignment drop-down menu part of each alert so that it's easier to assign.Please design the OC i...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration