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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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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 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

DBMEMPERCENT - Specify a value under 10 percent

The DBMEMPERCENT value can be set between 10 to 99. In some cases, the value of 10 percent is too high. This value can be set under 10 percent through db2 commands (with the parameter set to automatic in TSM). TSM has to be configured so that te p...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

List of new/changed server (ANR) messages in TSM V7.x

In previous version there was documentation on new/changed messages e.g.Version 6.3.4 ANR new and changed messages this is not available in version 7. please re-instate this documentation
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Admin API

Please document and open the admin api to the server. There seems to be an API which is used eg. by Tivoli Integrated Portal as I can see XML in tcpdumps. Maybe you still use something like SOAP. So providing an WSDL and/or Interfaces to .NET and ...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

AD Single Sign-On

We have installed TSM att a new customer and they inquired about TSM AD(/LDAP) integration since they would prefer to have single sign-on to TSM. I.e they want to login to TSM with the same admin username/password as they login to AD(/LDAP).This c...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

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 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Delivered

Add DURATION parameter to DELETE FILESPACE and BACKUP STGPOOL commands

I'd like the option of specifying a DURATION parameter for the DELETE FILESPACE and BACKUP STGPOOL server commands. This is already available for the MIGRATE STGPOOL command.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

TSSM Migration Utility Enhancement

Customer is migrating from AIX to Linux per a corporate mandate to move to Linux. Customer already upgraded from TSM 5.x to 6.x using the migration utility to migrate from the proprietary TSM datatabase to DB2. They used IBM ECM Services for this ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

256K tape blocksize support for NDMP backups for NetApp

We are doing NDMP backups of NetApp filer to TSM Server on IBM Protectier Storage (as VTL). We are doing LANFree backups using DATAMover to storage pool on Protectier. The storage pool is of type "NetApp Dump" "BACKUP NODE" TSM server command is u...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

TSM Server should show TDP version, not API version.

As it is today, if the user tries to see detailed information about a TDP node on the TSM server, it not shows the TDP version but the API version.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered