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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Be able to send individual node data that resides in directory container pools to tape

Customer would like the ability to send the data from individual nodes whose data resides in directory container pools to tape.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Allow individual filespaces to be decommissioned - specifically for use with NAS nodes and Netapp NDMP backups

Currently TSM (Spectrum Protect) offers two DECOMMISSION commands which are DECOMMISSION NODE and DECOMMISSION VM. However for NAS (NDMP) backups typically a node will be configured for each filer which will have numerous volumes being backed up v...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Add columns to the Servers table for Version, Release and Level info

The server / storage agent version, release and level info is reported by the QUERY SERVER FORMAT=DETAILED command. However the same information is absent from the SELECT * FROM SERVERS command. This makes attempts to automate configuration manage...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM platform mgration

We're asking for a simplified procedure apt to migrate a TSM server from Unix to Windows and vice-versa .Export-import node can be cumbersome in many situation.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Over calculation of space needed for NDMP backup

When attempting to do an NDMP backup of a virtual filespace, instead of looking at the amount of data in the filespace that is being backed up, TSM looks at the entire used storage of the NAS filer to determine whether the storage pool target is l...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Adding a time out for server migration

Dear SP development team, We have been using TSM for decades long since v5.x and upgraded our TSM server to V8.1.10 last year. However, the new release v8.1 has not changed the behavior during migration: As we noticed some migration process hang t...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Data Shredding on Container Storage Pools

In some multi-tenancy TSM environments using Container Storage Pools there may be a requirement to prove to a specific user that data belonging to a backup client has been deleted from the Storage Pool. Even after the reuse delay has elapsed, it i...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

backport (AIX) 8.1.14.x server fixes to 8.1.13.x

There are a number of fixes included in Spectrum Protect server 8.1.14.0 (plus some DB2 security fixes just postponed to 8.1.14.100). However, 8.1.14.x drops support for AIX 7.1. Having to also upgrade (still supported) AIX 7.1 to AIX 7.2 or 7.3 j...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM HADR with windows

Hi,i need a option for dsmserv which will prevent the restart of db2 or a flag whill start db2 with force in a hadr environment parameter. problem: 1. hadr configuration and the primary system went down2. on the standby i could start db2 with star...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Backup STGPOOL multiple processes for individual node

When running backup stgpool, I use 8 processes, however, if you have one very large node, it will not use multiple processes to backup that node, and when you're down to only one node left, it's a single-threaded process, using only one tape drive.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

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