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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Long Startuptime with big Diskpool

Our TSM 6.3.5 Server with 22TB Data in a Diskpool and 200GB Database needs over 90min to start. The developers say, this is because of following Reason: "In our V5 data base we had these things called bitvector objects which kept track of free spa...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Delete DBSPACE

cannot easily remove dbspace
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Operations Center Add Client Node add to node group

When adding a client node using the beautiful TSM Operations Center, the user is walked through various selections for node, domain and backup schedule and even client options set! Great. In a disk only based solution with node replication where r...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

TSM Operations Center Add Client Node add to collocation group

When adding a client node using the slick TSM Operations Center, the user is walked through various selections for node, domain and backup schedule and even client options set! Great. In a tape based solution where collocation groups are available...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

TSM server Oracle Linux support

TSM server is currently not supported under Oracle Linux. Can we look at future support on this platform?
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Move filespace to other node

Being able to move a filespace from one node to another.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add "exception=yes" function to query actlog command, plus other enhancements

The addition of the "exception=yes" function to the query actlog, along the same lines as used by the query event command, would aid in trolling though the activity log of a long or chatty process or session. This would only output the error and w...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Enhanced CLI command history and search

The old dsmadmc command line interface is unchanged for many years. One of the more aggravating deficiencies is a short command history and lack of search capability.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

limitation in TSM Server database should map POSIX standard

The limitation of different columns length in the TSM Server DB2 database does not match the limitation in reality. For example: PATH_MAX or MAX_PATH length according to OS POSIX standard is 4096 characters; while in db2 it is set to 1025 for FILE...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Option "Relable Scratch" for ACSLS Library

We use an Fujitsu Eternus Centricstore as an ACSLS Library, but with an ACSLS Library it is not possible to "relable" the Logical Volumes when they go to "Scratch" Status and to free up Space on the physical Tapes.To provide this at the Moment you...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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