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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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enhanced charging to support compressed/uncompress volume

Today:- It is possible to measure data on different levels on the TSM Server- SELECT * FROM FILESPACES Can be used to see the allocated and used space on filesystems on the clients But does not give correct results on databases, as both CAPACITY a...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Delivered

Policy based purge of defunct nodes and data

Today, if you need to purge a node from the environment because it has been retired or no longer needed, one waits for the data t age through its retention policy, then delete fi (of any active data remaining) and then remove node. This process is...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

Provide detailed sizing guidelines for DB sizing with 7.1.3 deduplication

Current product documentation includes TSM DB sizing guidelines without deduplication, and there are instructions for old TSM dedupe DB impact at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21596944. The impact of deduplication is much lower ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Backup of TSM / Spectrum Protect Directory Container Pools

The new directory container storage pools are unable to perform migrations to other storage pools. This can be "hacked", if you will, by backing up the directory container files themselves to another storage pool that can migrate to tape devices. ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Spectrum Protect server v8.1.x with SLES v12 on Power LE

Spectrum Protect v8.1.x server:Customer is building a complete SAP HANA on SLES v12 running on POWER LE. Spectrum Protect for HANA is supported on SLES v12 on POWER LE.In order to be consistent and ease of use, customer would like to run Spectrum ...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

TSM in native P7 compatibility mode

We are purchaseing p720 servers as our TSM servers. We want to be able to use POWER7™ in POWER7™ compatibility mode.​​ Currently if using POWER7™ it needs to be in POWER6™ compatibility mode.​​
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Option to start DSMSERV in "standalone" or "maintenance" mode

I would like to be able to start DSMSERV with an option that disables reclamation, administrative schedules, expiration and client sessions. I know it it possible to disable reclamation, expiration and administrative schedules by editing the dsmse...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

SP Operation Center backup success rate improvement

On the Operation Center, backup success rate is calculated by every node that is registered to the TSM Servers. However, this is not correct approach on every customer environment.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

TSM OC should have a job control.

TSM Operation Center needs a panel to control the backup-restores. I am going to put some examples. If a customer is using Control-M or TWS, TSM doesn't know if the backup is good or fail. Like TSM is a Backup/Restore tool. It is also necesary thi...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

move data from one bucket to a new one

the custmer has created a new bucket with ecryption and he migrated DATA from the no encyption bucket to this new one , but on the TSM server ,we couldn't update the bucket name on the container stprage pool, we even couldn't migrate the data from...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

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