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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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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...
over 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...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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...
about 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

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