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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Record TSM Backupset Tape utilization in the backupsets table

At present the only way to obtain the tape utilization of a backupset is to look for the backupset completion message. once this rolls off the activity log it is not possible to get this information. I propose that an additional column is added to...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Export node. Option to only export active files

We want the option to export only Active files not Active-deleted files as well when running export node.Today when run export node with filedata=backupactive both Active files and the last Active file know to the tsm database (both active and ina...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

please bring back a dsmfmt like tool in tsm6. formatting hundrets of 10GB volumes is not fun in the command line

dsmfmt could be automized by running a shell script.without it you have to format volume by volume.that take REALLY long time.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Restore Storage Pool does note generate a list of tapes required and in the order needed.

The customer lost the primary storage pool due to a hardware failure. During the Restore Storage Pool process, they were prompted for tape volumes one at a time. This was a very time consuming process. If a list could be generated of the tapes nee...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Schedules with archive action or command action with a Script that includes "dsmc archive" should have the same return code

-->54382,010,618Is there any way to use a schedule with a command-action and the returncodeof command-action-sched is similar to the case for thearchive-action-sched?
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

DEDUPREQURIESBACKUP options on multiple storage pools instead of system wide.

The DEDUPREQUIRESBACKUP option is a system wide option, meaning that any deduplicated storage pools either have this set to no or yes(all or nothing). I would like to set this option based on the storage pool. Therefore each storage pool would hav...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Server side compression at storage pools or device class of type FILE

TSM server side compression at either the storage pool level or device class level when specifying a device class of type FILE. for example: define devclass FILECLASS0 devtype=FILE maxcapacity=7168G directory="c:\tsm\fileclass0" compression=yes or...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Support iSCSI connection from TSM/EE to 3584 tape library

Allow the use of the iSCSI protocol to transport SCSI requests and responses over an ip network between a TSM server acting as an iSCSI client, and an automated 3584 tape library. This would allow a Linux-based TSM server built on a VMware virtual...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Using Simultaneous Write Mode it should be possible to avoid inheritance of SWM settings from a previous storage pool

Ability to avoid (disable) that Simultaneous Write Mode (SWM), aka. Autocopy Mode (ACM), is inherited to the next pool from the previous pool when the server during a client store is switching to the next pool in the storage hierarchy.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

VM Backup: Need more characters in OPTIONS-Field

For definition of vm-schedulers with more than 512 characters in the options field (def sched ... options='-domain.vmfull="VM=VMNAMEAPP009,VMNAMEAPP009,....." -MODE=IFIncremental' ...) we nee more characters.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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