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Spectrum Protect (Server)

Cancel multiple client sessions

Having a run to a server with many many client sessions, how can many being canceled by one single command?
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Not under consideration

Periodic Backup of Backed up Data (Monthlies etc)

If a TSM administrator needs to take periodic, i.e. weekly, monthly, half year, year end additional copies of data other than 'file/unstructured' the administrator must currently create additional schedules to take additional copies. A lot of envi...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Not under consideration

TSM replication process duration

I think a duration parameter will be great with the replication process of TSM. Duration also exist with expiration, reclamation so why not implement this also with replication
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 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 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Not under consideration

TSM Clean Frequency enhancement

Please allow a terabyte option in addition to gigabytes for the clean frequency for tape drives.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Not under consideration

Enhancement to OC when removing monitored server

Removing a spoke from hub causes error when custom report is defined for removed server. It would be useful to inform user about this or disable the report automatically. It would also be useful to be able to remove spoke from hub via OC.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Not under consideration

TSM q proc command should show the node name or volume name which is processing

Whe the copy process for storagepool is running, i have no information which node is processing. I can happen, that 1 of x copy process is running much longer then other. The reason is, that on disk pool the copy process is working on node. It can...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Not under consideration

NDMP Support for Dell FluidFS with Spectrum Protect

The Dell FluidFS 8600 supports NDMP 2/3/4 and appears to work with Spectrum Protect backup/restore node. Please add this as a formally supported NDMP enabled device family.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Not under consideration

DB2 problems are not reported to TSM

see also 36996,033,724. here the TSM server crashed hours after the first error occurrence. No warnings in actlog. thats not acceptable. DIA8411C A file "S0035583.LOG" could not be found.DIA8312C Disk was full.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Not under consideration

TSM platform mgration

We're asking for a simplified procedure apt to migrate a TSM server from Unix to Windows and vice-versa .Export-import node can be cumbersome in many situation.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Not under consideration