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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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TSM Server side compresion of dedupe objects

All of the leading virtual tape libraries that include dedupe capabilty with added compression to save additional space. TM appears not to do this (although it is possible via client side dedupe).
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

md5 checksum file

please provide for all downloads a md5 checksum file on the download site
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Ability to authenticate users with existing accounts (OS level or in LDAP directory) and map these to TSM admins (or nodes)

Ability to authenticate users with existing accounts (OS level or in LDAP directory) and map these to TSM admins (or nodes)
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Timestamp of the creation of a copy of an archive or backup object

RPO is one of the key characteristics of a TSM server-based B&R solution. In order a guarantee a specific RPO, it is important to be able to report on the state of the backed up or archived objects in a TSM Server repository. Specifically, it ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Track tape errors for scratch volumes

Currently, read and write errors are tracked for volumes only while they are defined in storage pools. Returning volumes to scratch causes this information for those volumes to be lost. It would be extremely useful to be able to track this data fo...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Issue with tsm + data domain + device class round robin

When we create a device class with multiple directories, we'd like an option to specify if the TSM round robin to write multiple files should be made based on the space available on each directory, or based simply on the filesystems/directories, r...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Provide a server command to reassign ownership of a filespace

Provide a server function/command to move ownership of an existing filespace from one node to another. This need for this function occurs due to host server consolidation in a data center. When old fileservers are retired, it is not uncommon for t...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Query Event for NDMP Backup

We want to add a new entry in the database under Summary table called Filespace or BCK_Volume or similar, This failed should include the entry of what Volume on the NetApp that TSM was backed up and if it was OK or not.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Is a defect

Catastrophy updating Spectrum Protect Server from 7.1.7.307 ... to 8.1.1.100

Please refer to PMR 64051,075,724.As a customer there are too many errors to be found in those upgrade routines. And it takes too long to get them fixed. I request you to improve the installation routines for Spectrum Protect products.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Keep transaction logs online as long as possible

The DB2 database has to allways retrieve all transaction logs from backup, even though the information might still be online.------------------------------------------------Here is an description how the backup is working today in DB2 The current ...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

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