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Spectrum Protect for Space Management

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CentOS support for the use of Spectrum Protect for Space Management component under Spectrum Archive

Requires the support of Spectrum Protect for Space Management function in CentOS environment, for the use of this component under Spectrum Archive.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 0 Delivered

Limit memory usage of dsmls

"dsmls -R", called at the root directory of a file system tree with many entries, may crash the system (SLES 11 SP1 with GPFS).In the scenario of PMR 09701,SGC,724 the dsmls process consumed so much kernel memory, that Linux killed the GPFS daemon...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 4 Delivered

Command to make premigrated files resident again

I accidentally had some files on an HSM file system migrated to tape. These files have to sty resident all the time, they normally sould never migrate. I recalled all of them and now they are in premigrated state. According to TSM support (PMR 331...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 Delivered

dsmrm always delivers rc=0

dsmrm always delivers a return code of 0 regardless whether the action completes successfully or not. This makes it impossible for embedded applications (dsmrm is called by a script) to control if a dsmrm ended successfully or not. Return code 0 s...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 Delivered