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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Mounting & Dismounting of tapes while executing backup jobs in scripts and non functioning of overflow location.

We are executing multiple backup jobs under one script, while executing scripts we have observed that there are multiple mounting and dismounting of tapes occur due to which our backup window has increased. We are also facing issues for non functi...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

request to enhance TSM documentation

As for compliance to PCIDSS requirement 8.2.1, our organization would need to find the following information in TSM documentationa) algorithm used by TSM to hash local authentication credentials b) location of the hashed local authentication crede...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM can't report that an object is a symbolic link

When attempting to restore a subdirectory structure we encountered a situation where a symbolic link had been replaced with a subdirectory (with contents). The TSM Backup Archive Client completed the restore but reported an error: ANS4007E Error p...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Testflag or option to restore from Primary STG pool instead of ACTIVE data pool

Currently if an activedata pool exist for a primary stgpool and a client restore is performed, the client will attempt to restore the data from activedata pool. Only in the following conditions it will restore the data from primary stg pool. 1. If...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

sort order of query occupancy command

With version 6 of TSM server the sorting order of "query occupancy"has changed from "fsid" to "alphabetical order". Why? The sorting order of commands "query filespace" (sorted by fsid)and "query ocupancy" should be the same. My opinion: This is a...
over 9 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 ad...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Restore of all filespaces of a TSM Node on a backupset with one command

I would need a additional function within the restore backupset where I can tell the TSM Server that it should restore all filespaces of a certain node on a backupset, not only one filespace per command.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Verbose output from expire inventory process

During expire inventory processing, filespaces for nodes that does not have any file to expire are silently skipped and never mentioned in the logs even if EXPI INV QUIET=NO (NO beeing the default value) is used. Add the option to specify QUIET=VE...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Stackable Client OPTIONSETS to simplify optionset Mgt

Allow Server Client optionsets to be stackable, i.e. INCLEXCL OPTIONSET WINDOWS
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSm support for ExaLogic devices

We are requested for TSM to support Exalogic backup
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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