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My votes: Spectrum Protect (Server)

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backup stgpool improvement

the 'backup stgpool' comand should be smarter.. for example if I run backup stg maxproc=4, and there is 1 process already running, it should start another 3. instead, it says 'backup stg already running' Also, another useful option would be to set...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

ANS1360I message only in clientlog, but not in Servers actlog

following message in dsmsched.log: 11/23/2011 21:02:26 Normal File--> 47,610 \\server1\c$\xxx\file_name.pdfANS1360I Compressed Data Grew It is not possible to monitor this error automatically, because its only in clients error log. also it is a...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Active directory integration with Tivoli Storage Manager 7.1 to pick existing users

We are looking to enable LDAP Active directory authentication for our Tivoli storage manager applications. But even we integrate TSM with active directory it doesnt picks up the existing users from our active directory organisational unit for auth...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

List of new/changed server (ANR) messages in TSM V7.x

In previous version there was documentation on new/changed messages e.g.Version 6.3.4 ANR new and changed messages this is not available in version 7. please re-instate this documentation
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Admin API

Please document and open the admin api to the server. There seems to be an API which is used eg. by Tivoli Integrated Portal as I can see XML in tcpdumps. Maybe you still use something like SOAP. So providing an WSDL and/or Interfaces to .NET and ...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

TSSM Migration Utility Enhancement

Customer is migrating from AIX to Linux per a corporate mandate to move to Linux. Customer already upgraded from TSM 5.x to 6.x using the migration utility to migrate from the proprietary TSM datatabase to DB2. They used IBM ECM Services for this ...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Provide accounting records for NDMP backups and restores

NDMP full/differential backups (and restores) should create an accounting session record in dsmaccnt just as client backups do, containing at a mimum start/end time and bytes transferred, but also if possible commwait and mediawait times. (Anythin...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Allowing authentication to external LDAP as meeting password complexity locally.

Allowing authentication to external LDAP as meeting password complexity locally.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Cancel Backup StoragePool command

TSM is a great product, but the automation of an Enterprise-class deployment cannot be done entirely within TSM alone. You already have a CANCEL EXPIRATION command, which cancels the expiration without needing to know the process number. I would l...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

TSM summary table should provide accurate info on backup status, regardless of the used scheduler within the environment

The SUCCESSFUL field in the SUMMARY table is not a valid representation of the "success" or "failure" of Backup-Archive Client operations. Rather, it maps to the "Normal server termination" field in the TSM server accounting records.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

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