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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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    Query for the backed up amount of data of database backup

    When we used the TSM 6.2.1.1 we used a command "QUERY VOLHIST TYPE=DBBACKUP", But since we upgraded to 6.3.1 the field that shows the backed up amount of data has been deprecated.Therefore i now have to sort through the activity log to see if it w...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

    NAS: NFS support for Random Volumes

    Our customer wants to have support for random volumes over NFS. They are using two NAS and both are replicated via Storage Subsystem, then the file pool creates a lot of problems because of reclamation, each time TSM reclaims, the pools move a lot...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

    TSM provides an interface/function to drive a scsi VERIFY command to a tape

    The customer is looking for a way within TSM to verify data on tape is still valid. They would like to be able to invoke the VERIFY tape scsi command via TSM to check tapes periodically over time. They plan to write data to tape and want to verify...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

    Update the behavior of space allocation when using DEVCLASS type FILE , when more than 1 directory is specified

    The file based device class allows user to specify more than 1 directory as destination to store TSM volumes. When you specify more than 1 directory, spread over multiple file system, you can have error message reported (ANR8785E) saying that we'r...
    almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

    add ANR messge to indicate a db2 crash recovery

    when tsm server starts, the following messages appear ANR0990I Server restart-recovery in progress. ANR0152I Database manager successfully started. when ANR0152I is displayed the db2 crash recovery may take several hours to complete. a message to ...
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

    Would be usefull to be able compress when doing a backup db on disk

    When we do a backup db on disk, the file take quite a lot of space. It would be a nice feature to be able to compress direclty those file. This especially useful since if we do compress the database dump (using for example bzip), it compress about...
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

    Send Email from TSM Server

    Send email from TSM server.
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Delivered

    Exchange TDP scheduler enhancments

    Current Exchange 2010 DAG environment allows for moment of active DB. TSM TDP is not able to adequately keep pace or understand this. Additional features need to be built in to allow for choice or/opt file, selection of backup preferences.
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

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