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Dsmserv commands need date/time stamps

All output from stand-along dsmserv commands should be prefixed with date/time stamps.� It would be nice to be able to easily calculate how long something like a restore db takes.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Delete DRM recovery plan files

The DRM recovery plan or DRM instruction plan files generated by the prepare command are not managed by TSM if the files are stored on the TSM server.� TSM should delete these files based on the DRMRPFEXPIREDAYS setting.� Automating the file delet...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Send messages from db2diag.log file to the TSM activity log

All error or warning messages in the db2diag.log file should be sent to the TSM activity log. This would minimize the need to be a DB2 DBA, and would enable a single point or source for monitoring and alerting.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Make all dsmserv.opt options settable using the SETOPT command

Make all dsmserv.opt options settable using the SETOPT command. Configuring dsmserv should not require a restart. All options should be dynamically settable. Correcting options should be dynamic and not cause an outage.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

disk to tape migration from large server

Current disk to tape migration process starts a single process when moving data from disk to tape. We are converting to Spectrum Scale using HSM for a server that has 2 PB of data. A single migration process will kill the conversion project.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Exch. TDP restore -progress bar not displayed

Restore of Exchange database using Tivoli Storage Management software no longer shows the status or progress bar until completion of the restore, or part of the restore. For example, if we restore from full and incremental backup, the status will ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TWS support for IBM i operating system version V7R3M0

According with information in IBM site, there aren't any supported versions of TWS agent for IBM i V7R3M0.Latest supported version is TWS 9.2 but only supported in IBM i V7R1M0 and V7R2M0.Meanwhile V7R1M0 end-of-support was announced to 30/04/2018...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Subscribe to profiles from more than one configuration manager

As of now it's only possible to define subscriptions from one configuration manager. It would be good to be able to do it from multiple configuration managers at the same time, which would make at least our environment more standardized for some s...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TSM cannot handle the backing up chroot Linux files natively

TSM not backing up:[root@lppdns01v ~]# ll -d /u01/chroot/etc/nameddrwxr-x--- 2 root named 4096 Jun 9 2014 /u01/chroot/etc/named[root@lppdns01v ~]# ll -d /u01/chroot/usr/lib64/binddrwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 9 2014 /u01/chroot/usr/lib64/bind[ro...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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