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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Node replication (Query REPLIcation) is not showing current throughput, remaining objects, ETA information as such.

Node replication (Query REPLIcation) is not showing current throughput, remaining objects, ETA information as such. Our intent is to use this feature for DR testing and an indication would be well appriciated in planning the test itself. If the no...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Shouldn't the ITM for TSM agent packages have a separate installer - possibly covering all the agents?

Shouldn't the ITM for TSM agent packages have a separate installer - possibly covering all the agents?
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

You want to control simultaneous access to various directories, as a performance item, such that TSM balances the workload

You want to control simultaneous access to various directories, as a performance item, such that TSM balances the workload across multiple spindles/heads/whatever. This is a request to allow ADMINs to somehow map underlying knowledge to TSM entiti...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Reclamation continuation until specified x% reached even if some tapes are not available inside silo.

Reclamation continuation until specified x% reached even if some tapes are not available inside silo.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Have control over specific file systems to use for INPUT and OUTPUT of certain (if not all) server operations

You want to have control over specific file systems to use for INPUT and OUTPUT of certain (if not all) server operations. This is primarily a DISK MIGRATION requirement (i.e., out with the old, in with the new). You mentioned yourself that this m...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Installer doesn't prompt for any locations relating to the database layout. In larger installation, need specify filesystems

Just installed driver5 of Reporting to RHEL5 32bit. The installer doesn't prompt for any locations relating to the database layout. In a larger installation I would expect to be able to specify which lv/filesystem gets used for these components (T...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement of move nodedata command.

i'd like to suggest you some enhancement of move nodedata command.Does it make sense to add following filter on it:- fromdate- todate- file filter extension ( ie *.DOC or *.CTL and so on ... ) I think in a near future, we all need to move back dat...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Capability to discover the LDAP servers out of DNS using Active Directory capability to return a list of LDAP servers to use.

Capability to discover the LDAP servers out of DNS using Active Directory capability to return a list of LDAP servers to use.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Automation of TSM configuration

Automatically discover devices and (re-)configure TSM server/client options It's reported that our competitive products may have had such capability. Account team contacts: Ken Kelly/Waltham/IBM, Daniel R Digregorio/Waltham/IBM@IBMUS, Gary Graham/...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Need a way to store Incremental dbbackup on same tape as full dbbackup

is there is a way to store Incremental dbbackup on same tape as full dbbackup ? since we will use numstream for dbbackup we will consume lots of tape witout filling them up to their high capacity further explanation:Using the numstream option at D...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration