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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Enhance define volume command with additional parameter

When defining a Sequentialfilevolume, it appears instantly in the filesystem. This is possible, because the internal structure of the volume will be created later, when data is written to it. This was introduced somewhere in TSM Version 6.3 and us...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

q event * * historical=yes

q event * * is very slow, because it build up future events too. I spoke to Colin Dawson at TSM Symposium 2015, and making a command like q event for historical events olny should be quite simple to include as an option.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

dsmicfgx recommend free space in active log

TSM configuration GUI should have a warning/reminder to allow enough free space in the active log filesystem.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Make SANDISCOVERY smarter in environments using persistent device naming

The SANDISCOVERY feature can update a device path from a persistently named device (/dev/lin_tape/by-id/lin_tape3) to a non-persistently named device (/dev/IBMtape3). For example: 08/09/2015 12:41:06 ANR8975I Found new path for DRIVE3 and target n...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM Support for Windows 2012 de-duplication

Request for support for TSM de-duplication in conjunction with Windows 2012 de-duplication. I'm seeing more customers asking if and when TSM is going to be supporting Windows 2012 native de-duplication. There is currently no support available, and...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Have TSM use specified source IP address on host with multiple IP addresses

For being able to better control traffic and firewall rules, it is desirable that the SERVERHLADDR will respect the defined setting when this host OS has multiple IP addresses - so that the source IP address of traffic initiated from the TSM insta...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Mounting & Dismounting of tapes while executing backup jobs in scripts and non functioning of overflow location.

We are executing multiple backup jobs under one script, while executing scripts we have observed that there are multiple mounting and dismounting of tapes occur due to which our backup window has increased. We are also facing issues for non functi...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

request to enhance TSM documentation

As for compliance to PCIDSS requirement 8.2.1, our organization would need to find the following information in TSM documentationa) algorithm used by TSM to hash local authentication credentials b) location of the hashed local authentication crede...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM can't report that an object is a symbolic link

When attempting to restore a subdirectory structure we encountered a situation where a symbolic link had been replaced with a subdirectory (with contents). The TSM Backup Archive Client completed the restore but reported an error: ANS4007E Error p...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Testflag or option to restore from Primary STG pool instead of ACTIVE data pool

Currently if an activedata pool exist for a primary stgpool and a client restore is performed, the client will attempt to restore the data from activedata pool. Only in the following conditions it will restore the data from primary stg pool. 1. If...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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