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Search results: Spectrum Protect (Server)

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TSM Operations Center Add Client Node add to node group

When adding a client node using the beautiful TSM Operations Center, the user is walked through various selections for node, domain and backup schedule and even client options set! Great. In a disk only based solution with node replication where r...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

TSM Operations Center Add Client Node add to collocation group

When adding a client node using the slick TSM Operations Center, the user is walked through various selections for node, domain and backup schedule and even client options set! Great. In a tape based solution where collocation groups are available...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

selectable DIO/nonDIO-Support on Storagepools

we are working now in our TSM-Environment with a complete implementation of GPFS as the the filesystem layer for our TSM-Plattfom on AIX and Linux. With the possibility to use many performance function in gpfs we can massively enhance our performa...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Incorporation of a way to change the priority of volume selection while restoring data

There is no way to change the priority of volume selection while restoring data in current TSM release.The customer would like to specify explicitly the priority of volume selection when restoring data.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Occupancy not reporting on objects stored in the TSM database

The Query Occupancy or Select from Occupancy commands do not report on backup objects stored within the TSM database.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Fast way to determine tape location of archive data

A fast way to determine what tapes contain archive data with a particular description. This could also be extended to which tape(s) conatina an archived/backed up file. The query we have to use to determine this information is excrutiatingly slow....
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

new authority class "QUERY" for query and select privilege

In order to restrict the query and select commands for all the administrators having only client owner authority I put "QUERYAuth<br /> Storage" in dsmserv.opt. In order to monitor the server activity, I    have defined the administrators na...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Request to run TSM Server on Solaris11

We want you to add Solaris11 as a supported platform for TSM Server.In FUJITSU business negotiations, there are many requests to runTSM Server on Solaris11. However, at present TSM server does not support Solaris11 as a supported platform. For thi...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Maintenance Window in Bachup Schedules

The ability to schedule a maintenance window for client schedules would be very helpfull. Currently there are only two methods: expiration of a schedule or deassociation of a schedule. Both methods have the downside that replanning needs manual in...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Migrate Inactive Data from StoragePools

Need the ability to migrate inactive data from storage pools. When large disk pools are used (typically with dedup) and these pools fill, there is no way to automatically migrate data in a selective manner. Using Age based migration rules results ...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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