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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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TSM OC DRM Support

The Administration Center is aging and outdated. The Admin Center is only supported in UNSUPPORTED browsers (Firefox 3.6) or outdated browsers (IE 8). The Operations Center looks to be its replacement. Functionality of the OC however is very lacki...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Dilligent tsm integration

Hi, i think it would be very nice to have a better dilligent tsm integration. It should be very nice to have client side deduplication with dilligent as primary stgp pools.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Include ulimit requirements to TSM init script

During reboot of linux systems, init scripts inherits kernel default settings for open files (ulimit -n).    These will be too small, and give warnings in tsm actlog.    The init script does not read values from sysctl or limit...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

sort order of query occupancy command

With version 6 of TSM server the sorting order of "query occupancy"has changed from "fsid" to "alphabetical order". Why? The sorting order of commands "query filespace" (sorted by fsid)and "query ocupancy" should be the same. My opinion: This is a...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Make the time interval for "ANR3654W Inventory file expiration processing did not run in the previous 24 hours" configurable

The message ANR3654W is shown even if an expire inventory schedule was executed every day at 4pm, because the detailed time frame including seconds is checked for the message. The request is either check not on detailed second (maybe a minute or 5...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

label libvol command needs revision

When checkin or labeling lib volumes TSM by default ignores the barcode even if one is present. There is no confirmation to the user and no indication that what they did isn't using the external label. Soo it is possible that the barcode is differ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Support NDMP Cluster Aware Backup for Netapp Filer

Ontap 8 Clustermode supports NDMP backup of virtual filers. To backup all volumes independent of where the volumes are stored, NDMP Cluster Aware Backup is needed. See https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1196874/html/GUID-D1DBE2B8-1C3E-444D-9A0...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

Support syncronous write with ndmp backup

define stgpool says, that "simultaneous-write function is not supported for NAS backup operations". It would remove the necessesity to copy all tapes to a copypool after each NDMP backup.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Enhance logging of replication failures

We are using node replication between two TSM 6.3.2.0 servers, and were experiencing some replication failures, which was due to operator error. The issue was that one policy domain on the source server did not exist on the target server, so the r...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Allocation of (file-based) Scratch Volumes

For file-based storage pools only.1. TSM does not take into account free space in the fileystem when allocating new Scratch volumes2. Owing to 1 if new disk (filesystems) are added there is no fuction that will "even out" disk usage. This RFE is t...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration