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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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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 13 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 13 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 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Send Email from TSM Server

Send email from TSM server.
over 13 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.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

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