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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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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

The TSM tablespace conversion procedure should be automated

The TSM tablespace conversion procedure should be automated.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Support multiple TEC host servers in TSM/TEC integration

Enable support for assignment of multiple TEChosts (TEC/Omnibus) targets for alerting.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Improve session management in TSM to prevent ANR8216W messages

Currently, message ANR8216W is issued when TSM deliberately destroys sessions that it is not using. This is leading to many messages on the error log that are clouding real issues. Customer would like this message to be removed if TSM deliberately...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

TSM support enhancement for version 5.5: client, server and storageagent in relation to TSM version 6.3

Our main GSE Installation-Base are already on version 5. Some Costumers has Problems with the upgrade to version 6. To establish a more sophisticated upgrade plan we want to establish a longer Support cycle of version 5 over 31.12.2012
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Adaptive Subfile Backup support larger file sizes

Increase the maximum file size supported by SubFile backup. We have customers using TSM to backup outlook.ost files and archive*.pst files. The file size is over the 2GB limit of Adaptive Subfile Backup, but we have many of these files and they ch...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

TCPPort LISTEN limit to single service ip addresses

In the dsmserv.opt should be an option added to set the specified TCPPort listen only on a few single ip addresses and not on all, like now. netstat -an | grep LISTEN...tcp4 0 0 *.1501 *.* LISTEN...This security issue occur if you run more then on...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Q STGP to display % free as well as % Util

It would be handy to have Q STGP display what is truely avaliable for use in a storage pool, rather than just what is utilised. If you run the command it will show you how much disk is currently in use, but unless you also look at Q VOL STGP=<P...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

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