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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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schedlogretention option is only applied at process startup

It is not recommended to restart the dsmcad process on a regular basis.We use the schedlogretention option is required to allow archiving of the dsmsched.log files, but this means that the dsmwebcl.log files continue growing for the life of the ds...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Correct reporting of unsupported OSes

I have been advised to submit an RfE following on from PMR 45729,001,866. We have noticed that TSM does not reliably report the OS level of unsupported OSes. As far as we are concerned, it used to do so: for example, when Mac OS X 10.9 was release...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Is a defect

enhancement request for TransErrno messages

This applies to Unix clients (AIX, Linux, Solaris). Please enhance the TransErrno error messages to include the full pathname of the ofeending filesystem entry. This would aid in analysing the errors message like these that often follow the TransE...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Multiple DOMAIN.VMFULL statements should be allowed in dsm.opt

Multiple DOMAIN.VMFULL statements should be allowed in dsm.opt for the backup/archive client for VMFULL type backups.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Problem with long running Incr. Backup on deduped Win 2012 Drive

We have 2 Win 2012 Fileserver with several millions of files and several terabytes of data. Now it is deduped and incr. run now 6 times longer.It would be great to implement "Windows optimized Backup" into the TSM Baclient.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Include text field in TSM client GUI to type path

In PMR 70622,100,838 we had the problem that using webclient to restore a group of files having selected PIT option before is not possible because an intermediate subdirectory had not an active version on that date. Here is an example: If there wa...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Scratch volume selection for SCSI type libraries

1. When a tape is checked out, then checked back in, the mount count should not be reset. The count should only be set to zero when a new tape is labeled into the library or forced to zero by options. 2. Add an option to the check in command to fo...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Journal based backup for Sun Solaris

Support for journal based backup as on AIX and Windows.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Public repo for TSM Linux Clients

Provide a public repo (repository) for the TSM Clients that can be used for automated synching for new versions of TSM Linux Clients.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

AIX JOURNAL-BASED BACKUP CAUSES "MISC KERNEL HEAP" MEMORY CONSUMPTION (APAR IC97751)

The "filepath" kernel extension used to monitor file system change activities allocates kernel heap memory for each file accessed on the system and keeps that memory until the system is rebooted. On systems with many files this memory consumption ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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