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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...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Migrate Storagepool - Client data is faster than migration

Client backups fail when migration of storage pool to successor storagepool takes too long.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Drive preference in a mixed-media library sharing environment

TSM supports multiple media types in a single library definition. It handles these through media type information reported by the physical library,combined with the drive read and write format lists provided by the drives. Unfortunately, in this c...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Update Management Class for backups/archives in TSM

in our environment TSM is used for data availability (systems and applications backups), and for data retention (archives of historical data).We have the case of files archived all with the same criteria -so the same Management Class- but now we r...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Request for a Server option to prevent the server to pass the communication options for a replication target to a client

Starting with version 7.1 a client can failover to a replication target for restoring data. If the client is enabled and configured for replication on the server, the client receives the communication options for the target and adds the informatio...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Secondary control for Adminstraive schedule jobs

This is a basic request. When a administrator leaves the company or change of project, per process the respective admin ID should be deleted from Spectrum Protect ( remove admin ). However the "remove admin" command just process the deletion reque...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Improve effectiveness of node replication process

The effectiveness of the node replication process needs to be improved, when data is located on FILEDEV device class based storage - in order to be better able to utilize the maximum defined number of sessions when possible.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Improve documentation on Spectrum Protect Object Agent

See related case TS008878679. There is no documentation on the configuration details of the Object Agent. The object agent is needed to offload data from Spectrum Protect Plus to Spectrum Protect. There is no documetation on the object_agent_confi...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Add new command to administrative CLI to pause a script

I suggest you add a command named "wait", the purpose of which would be to pause a script in TSM CLI. For example doing "wait 10" would pause a script for 10 seconds.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Lift the limit that one filespace can only have one node replication session

I got more than 50 filespaces, some of these filespaces are filled with PB-level file data. To replicate one of the PB-level filespaces on LTO-8 tapes, will take more than one month. 1PB=1024*1024*1024 MB LTO-8 Drive read/write speed: 360MB/s 1024...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

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