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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Multisession replication of a big file

At the moment the limitation of replication over the WAN with latency and package lost is the fact, that one file can only be replicated in one session. Starting with TSM 7.1 big files are represented by segments within TSM, but still only one ses...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

ANR0157W Database operation FETCH for table Import. Groups failed with result code 4522

ACTION TAKEN: Hello TSM, according to DB2 information center: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9r7/topic/com.ibm.db2.luw.messages.sql.doc/doc/msql01224n.html The SQL1224 has various rc's (reason code). And we have rc = 3 for NUM_LOG_SPAN:...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Support of enhanced DAR for EMC and NetApp filer

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21223572Restoring file(s) on a network-attached storage (NAS) file server is much faster than restoring a directory. Enhanced DAR (Direct Access Recovery) for directories provided by NetApp or EMC f...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Support NDMP Cluster Aware Backup for Netapp Filer

Ontap 8 Clustermode supports NDMP backup of virtual filers. To backup all volumes independent of where the volumes are stored, NDMP Cluster Aware Backup is needed. See https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1196874/html/GUID-D1DBE2B8-1C3E-444D-9A0...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

TSM instance crashed; Error: fileystem full, however no ANR2992W was warning encountered before filesystem becomes full.

Customer is not seeing ANR2992W warning before TSM ran out of DB space, and has what should be adequate space available.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

TSM Server version history

Sometimes it is necessary to known what time you did run which version on your TSM server. For example when you may affected by an APAR(IC71049) which should be fixed in the current version you are running, but you still have older volumes affecte...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

Improve TSM Replication over high latency WAN links

I would like a TSM server option that would allow TSM to use as many parallel TCP connections as possible in order to maximize throughput along a Long Fat Pipe (WAN link w/ >60ms latency between TSM servers). Alternatively, I would like the TSM...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

Support for running TSM Server on Windows Server 2012

Hi need support for installing TSM on Windows Server 2012.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Archive log utilization query

TSM 6.1 and up have no way to show the archive log utilization in the admin client. This seems to be an oversight. The query log command should be able to display this info. It should also be available via a select statement. The only way to get t...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Match return codes with documentation

Currently there is a disparity in the documentation vs the actual behaviour. As such I would like to see this recitified.I would like, that the following be changed in so that the 'return code 4 explanation is as follows: "The operation completed ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release