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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Support multiple TEC host servers in TSM/TEC integration

Enable support for assignment of multiple TEChosts (TEC/Omnibus) targets for alerting.
almost 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...
almost 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...
about 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...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

reduce install size of TSM Server

Currently the size of the TSM V6 server is 1.6 - 1.8GB. This is regardless of a fresh install, upgrade or minor fix install. The majority of the space appears to be consumed by db2. We have 1200 TSM servers, mostly located at remote sites with low...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Long Waiting for access on FDEVC during Migration

During migration i file is in use by a client backup session. Migration is waiting until the file is mountable for the process. it takes very very long:Waiting for access to input volume /tsmstg2/tsm152/0000CB96.BFS (24108 seconds). This can be al...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Support of 6G SAS interface

When a tape library device is connected to a 6G SAS HBA on a Solaris machine with a SAS I/F, devices (changer, drive) are not authenticated (created) on the Solaris system.The environment is as follows:- TSM Server V5.x or V6.x / Solaris 10- Libra...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Support of the Library Set functions required to run TSM server in a cluster environment

The resetdrive parameter in the Define Library command is supported on all platforms, but a drive device which is actually reset is only on AIX and Windows. On Solaris and Linux, the drive reset function does not work.To run TSM server on the clus...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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