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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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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

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

Request for TSM 6.3.4 support with ACSLS on Oracle Linux

Los Alamos National Laboratory uses Oracle's ACSLS tape library manager with its TSM system. LANL wishes to upgrade to ACSLS 8.3, which runs exclusively on Oracle Linux. LANL is requesting that TSM 6.3.4+ be officially tested/supported for use wit...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

ENABLENASDEDUP should be supported on EMC Celerra/VNX Filers

ENABLENASDEDUP should be supported on EMC Celerra/VNX Filers.According to documentation (http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v7r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsm.srv.ref.doc%2Fr_opt_server_enablenasdedup.html), this parameter are only suppor...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

ANR0157W Database operation FETCH for table Import. Groups failed with result code 4522

ACTION TAKEN: Hello TSM, according to DB2 information center: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9r7/topic/com.ibm.db2.luw.messages.sql.doc/doc/msql01224n.html The SQL1224 has various rc's (reason code). And we have rc = 3 for NUM_LOG_SPAN:...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

TSM Server Import Node from Media requires option to start from tape sequence # other than 1.

System: TSM ServerActor: Bendigo Bank TSM Media Exports have been actively used to migrate from our TSM 5.5 environment running on Windows 2003 to TSM 6.4.x running on AIX 7.1 Description:I have a very long media import to a TSM v6.3.4.100 server ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

TSM 6.3 and ACSLS 8.3 Linux

Support for ACSLS 8.3 running on RedHat Linux under TSM Server 6.3 running on Redhat Linux.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

export node collocation group name

The "collocation group name" field of a node should be exported to the target server when "export node" command is executed on a source server. If the collocation group doesn't exist on the target server it should be created (like e.g. cloptset).
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Configuration Manager Enhancement

Dear Ladies and Gentleman's,We need one Enhancement for Configuration Manager built in TSM Server. In PMR 69945,077,724 with reference to PMR 66666,077,724 and in PMR 66666,077,724 I discussed with second Level Support of TSM about the possibiliti...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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