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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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New options to TSM server query session command

Query session option to display only sessions for a specific node. Query session option to display only specific sessions type.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Support for ClientUpdate in NAT'ed setup

A sort of auto-detect mechanism would be nice for the ClientUpdate function - in order to detect which tcpserver address and tcp port number the client uses for communication.This is required, if client and the server are seperated ny at NAT'ing f...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Allow TSM client schedules to use "minutes" for PERUnits

Please allow the PERUnits to be able to be updated to a value smaller than "Hours" i.e. minutes or seconds
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

include all TSM client products in autodeploy

Include all the TSM client products (TDP, etc.) in the functionality of autodeploy.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Which userid does restore a file ?

For tracing, for auditing reasons we want to know the TSM administrator name of the administrator which restores an object (file, directory).TSM web client is used for the restore.Looking in server actlog there are two messages ANR0503I (with the ...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM should support the shared tapedrive feature of TS3500

TSM 7.1 on AIX 7.1 with TS3500 tape library. ANR8300E I/O error on Ts3500 tape library OP=(00006c03). I have 4 E07 tape drives in this physical library I have 2 logical libraries with the robotics and one tape drive assigned to each library, and t...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Message ANR0422W should be changed when an admin fails the connection.

Message ANR0422W should be changed when an admin fails the connection. This makes some reporting / alerting tools to believe that a backup may be configured incorrectly when it's clearly not the case.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic migation of the TSM DB and Log volumes from one OS volume to another.

We need to migrate the TSM DB and log volume from one Os volume to another dynamically. WE have performed this activity in the previous version of TSM and it worked perfect. Seems like that capability is missing in the newer versions.. For Ex: I u...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

RENAME COLLOCGROUP command requested

Provide the ability to rename collocation groups with a command similar to RENAME COLLOCGROUP.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Migration process should skip locked files

Under certain conditions, the TSM server will try to migrate volumes that are locked by client backup sessionsl and simply wait for the volume to free up. This happens on a long-running (slow) backdup, or when a session does not terminate properly...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration