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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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connect tsm-users to an existing active-directory, not only "complex-passwd-delegation"

in tsm 6.3.4 we can connect the tsm-users to an active-directory. but on the active-directory i need a new full-access-delegated ou. and this new ou is only a workaround to have a complex-password-policy for tsm.i want to use the existing active-d...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Support TSM 7.x on Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7

The newest version of RHEL (v7) was released on June 10th 2014. Since this new version uses the xfs filesystem as default, and this filesystem offers up to 500TB filesystems out-of-the-box. In contrast even the newest versions of RHEL v6 (that is ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Better logging for node replication failures

When using node replication, and a replication process fails - it is very often hard to find the exact cause.It would be great, if the reason - or at least the node(s) and/or filespace(s), that caused the error would be logged in the TSM server ac...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Add Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 to the list of supported Operating systems

We would like to have Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) version 6 (Red Hat Compatible Kernel) added to the list of supported Operating Systems for Tivoli Storage Manager server on Linux x86_64. Please note that OEL provides two kernels. We are referri...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Automatic decommission for clients on cloud server

Decommissioning of clients does not always happen for clients on the cloud server. This leaves clients data in the cloud and can increase our monthly chargeback for cloud storage along with maintaining data passed the retention date – can cause le...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Ensure LAN_FREE when NEXTpool is used

In a situation where a customer sets up a policy so that data may go to 2 different storage pools, and uses the MAXSIZE parameter of a storage pool to determine where data is placed, the ability to access the 2nd storage via LAN_FREE is only deter...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Occupancy not reporting on objects stored in the TSM database

The Query Occupancy or Select from Occupancy commands do not report on backup objects stored within the TSM database.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

DRP TSM :

Some customers save the VM data on tape. They use the stgpool VMCTLFILESTGPOOL (control file) to accelerate the restore. Macro "VMCTLFILESTGPOOL.VOLUMES.DESTROYED" should be added in "RECOVERY.SCRIPT.DISASTER.RECOVERY.MODE".
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

DRP TSM : modify the script to restore the DB

the commands - in RECOVERY.SCRIPT.DISASTER.RECOVERY.MODE file - to restore tsm instance after crash, are for TSM v5.In TSM v6, to restore after a major crash, it's needed to create a new TSM instance. The TSMDB1 database is dropped, just before th...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Is a defect

Node Replication process

Hi,a backup process is preempted by Node Replication process. This is incomprehensible. Why Node Replication process has a higher priority than backup ? In this way, backup stg process should also have a higher priority.Thank you.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

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