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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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    Querying actlog with option MSGNO can only be done with one argument, this should be extendend to use more arguments

    The search in Actlog with the msgno option should be extended so that it is possible to search for several message numbers. For example, msgno=0293,0294 should be possible in a query so that you can see the start and end of an action, therefore yo...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Ability to migrate TSM DB from AIX to x86 Linux server

    Our Server Support team manages and supports hundreds of x86 Linux and MS Windows servers, and are very efficient and adept at doing so. They have retired all older Solaris and AIX servers. However, we still run our TSM servers on AIX, because tha...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    LIN_Tape device driver support for RHEL RealTime Kernel

    Customer is evaluating IBM Spectrum Protect and would like to have the ability to install/configure the IBM LIN_Tape-3.0.46-1.src.rpm (downloaded from IBM Fix Central) on the Real-time RHEL7.5 kernel. The customer is not able to successfully compi...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Improvement of usability by implementing a HOST command in dsmadmc

    By using a HOST command or special character, commands can be issued at operating system level and you do not have to log out of dsmadmc.
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    scheduled command messages are wrapped in activity log - ANR2753I

    When ANR messages are logged as a result of commands run inside of an administrative schedule, the messages are wrapped at approx 40 characters. see ANR2753I. This makes programmatic processing of the logs very difficult. Log messages should never...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    one way password implementation on tsm server

    During a security audit we found some probleme with the implementation of password allgorithm in TSM. It is recommended to immplement a one way password encryption algorithm, at least for the TSM server accounts (Admins, server to server, lan free...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Collocation for Cloud-Container Storage pool

    System: IBM Spectrum Protect v7.1.7 or v8.1 (TSM) Requirement: Customer want to collocate data for Cloud Container STGPOOLWe archive medical data of hundreds of Hospitals (with hundreds of servers) to tape using collocation by node. Collocation op...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    TSM instance incompatibility with git in IBM's Linux Toolbox

    The problem appears to be that when login to the tsm instance account, which includes this in the ~/.profile file: # The following three lines have been added by IBM DB2 instance utilities. if [ -f /tsm/sqllib/db2profile ]; then . /tsm/sqllib/db2p...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    TSM Meta Data Only Replication

    TSM Meta Data only replication
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Node replication failed and does not replicate all data if a communication error occurred on the source or target server

    The node replication failed and does not replicate all data if a communication error occurred on the source or target replication server.Occasionally, node replication will complete with a FAILURE in spite of replicating all objects after having a...
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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