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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Which userid does restore a file ?

For tracing, for auditing reasons we want to know the TSM administrator name of the administrator which restores an object (file, directory).TSM web client is used for the restore.Looking in server actlog there are two messages ANR0503I (with the ...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

include all TSM client products in autodeploy

Include all the TSM client products (TDP, etc.) in the functionality of autodeploy.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Message ANR0422W should be changed when an admin fails the connection.

Message ANR0422W should be changed when an admin fails the connection. This makes some reporting / alerting tools to believe that a backup may be configured incorrectly when it's clearly not the case.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

policy admins need ability to remove replication configuration in order to remove node

We provide TSM as a service and grant policy rights to our server users who create/delete their own nodes, schedules, and the like. Previously, they would delete their own filesystems ande then remove the node. However, since implementing node rep...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Relabel-On-Scratch option for external library manager

When TSM Server recycles (frees) a virtual tape of a VTL this is eliminated from the TSM DB, but not from the VTL. So statistics e.g. Dedup factor are distorted over time. To prevent from this the TSM Relabel-on-Scratch option was introduced. But ...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

TSM should support the shared tapedrive feature of TS3500

TSM 7.1 on AIX 7.1 with TS3500 tape library. ANR8300E I/O error on Ts3500 tape library OP=(00006c03). I have 4 E07 tape drives in this physical library I have 2 logical libraries with the robotics and one tape drive assigned to each library, and t...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect server activity log to show detailed file restore and tape volume.

Hi Team, As a requirement for auditing we would like to have the server actlog show the file restore in detail and the tape volume it was restored. At the moment we have to restore from the client using restore/pick option and screen shot to...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Functionality already exists

Dynamic migation of the TSM DB and Log volumes from one OS volume to another.

We need to migrate the TSM DB and log volume from one Os volume to another dynamically. WE have performed this activity in the previous version of TSM and it worked perfect. Seems like that capability is missing in the newer versions.. For Ex: I u...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

RENAME COLLOCGROUP command requested

Provide the ability to rename collocation groups with a command similar to RENAME COLLOCGROUP.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Clean Frequency enhancement

Please allow a terabyte option in addition to gigabytes for the clean frequency for tape drives.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

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