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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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sort order of query occupancy command

With version 6 of TSM server the sorting order of "query occupancy"has changed from "fsid" to "alphabetical order". Why? The sorting order of commands "query filespace" (sorted by fsid)and "query ocupancy" should be the same. My opinion: This is a...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

new authority class "QUERY" for query and select privilege

In order to restrict the query and select commands for all the administrators having only client owner authority I put "QUERYAuth<br /> Storage" in dsmserv.opt. In order to monitor the server activity, I    have defined the ad...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Restore of all filespaces of a TSM Node on a backupset with one command

I would need a additional function within the restore backupset where I can tell the TSM Server that it should restore all filespaces of a certain node on a backupset, not only one filespace per command.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Verbose output from expire inventory process

During expire inventory processing, filespaces for nodes that does not have any file to expire are silently skipped and never mentioned in the logs even if EXPI INV QUIET=NO (NO beeing the default value) is used. Add the option to specify QUIET=VE...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Stackable Client OPTIONSETS to simplify optionset Mgt

Allow Server Client optionsets to be stackable, i.e. INCLEXCL OPTIONSET WINDOWS
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSm support for ExaLogic devices

We are requested for TSM to support Exalogic backup
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM tablespace version

Customer would like to make sure that once they upgrade from TSM 6.2 to TSM 7.1 their TSM database tablespaces will be updated to latest level in a seamless way. They are worried of what happened with the migration of tablespaces between 9.5 and 9...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Supoort for NDMP Backup of NetAPP cDOT Running SVM-SCOPED

We have a client that has deployed new NetApp cDOT cluster and wants to run in SVM-SCOPED mode but can not because TSM NDMP backups do not support cDOT Cluster Aware Backups in SVM-SCOPED only NODE-SCOPED.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

During TSM Upgrade to 7.1 you get a message that says "java.io.IOException: There is not enough space in the file system."

Even thou, there are requirements for /var, /tmp. During the TSM 7.1 server upgrade, if space is needed in /tmp, the install logs will say "/tmp" or say it at the screen. As for files that need to be backed up under /opt/IBM/IBMIMShared/native/com...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

AD for reading passwords, but modifing AD

From TSM server using AD only for reading passwords without modifing the AD database. When TSM administrator login to the TSM commandline dsmserv, the password should be verified in an AD database.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration