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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Stackable Client OPTIONSETS to simplify optionset Mgt

Allow Server Client optionsets to be stackable, i.e. INCLEXCL OPTIONSET WINDOWS
almost 10 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.
about 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...
about 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

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

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