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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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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

TSM instance crashed; Error: fileystem full, however no ANR2992W was warning encountered before filesystem becomes full.

Customer is not seeing ANR2992W warning before TSM ran out of DB space, and has what should be adequate space available.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Automation of TSM configuration

Automatically discover devices and (re-)configure TSM server/client options It's reported that our competitive products may have had such capability. Account team contacts: Ken Kelly/Waltham/IBM, Daniel R Digregorio/Waltham/IBM@IBMUS, Gary Graham/...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Add capability to extract data from existing TSM backup to a second node

A lerge number of customer require periodic long retention backups.    Currently the most space efficient way of achieveing this is by having a second node for the long term retention and running periodic ( e.g. weekly, monthly, quarterl...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

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