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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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TSM 7.1.1 Server has no db2diag.log error messages for TSM server database backup

After upgrade of AIX 6.1 TSM 6.3.4 server to TSM 7.1.1, we noticed error messages in db2diag.log from PMR 18439,057,649 and technote http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21688785..This request is for TSM 7.1.1 or later release to not h...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Copy node function

The create the copy of exact node I use always rename node , export and import than rename the original node . This causes to much hassel if there are several nodes and load on the tsm server . Creating copy of node is critical if there is a multi...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Delete DBSPACE

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

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