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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Test SnapDiff with NetApp Infinite Volumes in Cluster mode

We need to have SnapDiff tested in Infinite Volumes on NetApps cluster mode. We currently are using NetApps 7-mode, but are in the process of upgrading these appliances to cluter mode. NetApp documentation states third party SnapDiff works in Infi...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Planned for future release

Keepalive option for Library client mount requests

Require library client sessions to use a keepalive or retry mechanism to keep from being timed out by firewalls. Library client is in one part of the network, library manager is in another, separated by firewall. Security rules insist that a timeo...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Improve the DRP extraction

DR plan scripts is based on the assumption that TSM is recovered to the original TSM server system where the group, the user who owns the instance, the directories and the instance already exist.I think it is good to add commands to check if the g...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

IBM Tape Device Driver for LTO - suppress internal speed control for big tape copy operations

Performance Problems with TSM Tape to Tape Workloads on IBM LTO Drives at the customer Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ)The customer openend the PMR 013FP4Y,724 on this case (the format doesn't fit the PMR ID field in this form).
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Fast way to determine tape location of archive data

A fast way to determine what tapes contain archive data with a particular description. This could also be extended to which tape(s) conatina an archived/backed up file. The query we have to use to determine this information is excrutiatingly slow....
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Additional controls allowing TSM server "delete filespace" command

A global TSM deployment with many TSM servers. Our organization has identified an issue with the current TSM Administrator support framework. The issue is the TSM support team currently has access to TSM server backup data as well as the primary d...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add an option to disable Client Option Set Replication

Please add an option to allow TSM admins to disable the replication of Client Option Sets during a REPLICATE NODE operation, or to prevent the generation of ANR1946W messages (or perhaps only an information message).
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Also Implement DAR on TSM Server CLI

Currently DAR is implemented on the TSM Web Client Interface only. Individual file restores done from the TSM Server CLI do not utilize DAR. This causes additional overhead during a restore process of the entire image being scanned and if large en...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

audit drive DRIVE vol=NAME or audit vol ... drive=DRIVE

i would be very nice to have a audit drive DRIVE vol=VOL or audit vol ... drve=DRIVE command. It's often necessary to explicit check a tape drive and there is no command to do this.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Option to modify updated weekdays and weekend in spectrum protect

We are located in UAE and here weekdays and weekend are different what is defined in the spectrum protect server . I want to update weekdays and weekend definition in the system according to this region . like mentioned below. Weekdays = Sunday, M...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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