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Update to TSMJBB daemon

We have been having AIX lpars with busy filesystems, 'lock up' with the tsmjbbd daemon running. It would be better if the tsmjbbd could issue some sort of warning instead of locking up the server. The PMR that caused this request was 82029.082.000...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Packet data curruption between Tivoli client API and Tivoli server.

Customer is using external network between client machine and Tivoli storage server. These is data corruption between Tivoli client API (dsmSendData) and Tivoli server and client API is not indicating any data corruption. Due to this database reco...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Allow ndmp backups to stack in versions 6.3 and later

Prior to v6.3 we had the functionality to stack backup processes when running ndmp backups. Rather than create extra scripts externally to limit them to 4 we require the functionality to be returned.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Cumulative clientopt definition

Background: Today when we use clientopt on the server side the number of clientopt can grow quite large, the number may grow in to 50-100 clientopts over time if the Spectrum Protect Solution uses a central configuration manager. This may be possi...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM Linux Client 6.4.X web interface with Java Version 8

The Linux web client is not working with Java 8x. Please resolve
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Web Client GUI and

Please make TSM Web Client GUI compatible with Java 8 security requirements
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Need more frequent updates of delivery unit space utilization

Currently usage information for file-based delivery units is updated only during a probe job, which in current versions of TPC cannot be configured to be run more frequently than once a day. We need to give our storage users more frequent up-to-da...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Command line restart of dsmcad on OS X 10.10.2 (Yosemite)

TSM documentation specifies command line operation of dsmcad as:>>-sudo /sbin/SystemStarter--+-start---+--dsmcad--------------->< +-stop----+ '-restart-' The SystemStarter utility is deprecated as of OS X 10.4 and is not present on OS ...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

dsmc hang when NFS hard mount is fail

i want that the dsmc or dsmc sched dont hang on a failed NFS Mount.Ther should be a timout and than go on with backup.ther can be a message in errorlog.But i dont want to hang the dsmc
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TSM BA Client backup the local file spaces in sequencially order, starting from C: to X:. need random order

As it is today the TSM BA Client backup the local file spaces in sequencially order, starting from C: to X:. I want to have an random order or some intelligence, that the TSM code should start to backup the file spaces with oldest successfully bac...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration