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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Query or report to show nodes/volumes that are not collocated

There is a need to have a query command to show which nodes and/or volumes are not abiding by the collocation settings. eg tsm: TEST > q collocvol Volume collocation_type count stateP02235L5 Group 1 OKP02222L5 Group 2 ERRORP02257L5 SPACE 1 OKP0...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Add more specific error messages when DD SYSTCPD is missing in a batch JCL in z/OS that is trying to connect with TSM server.

Add more specific error messages when DD SYSTCPD is missing in a batch JCL in z/OS that is trying to connect with TSM server. We would like to have more detailed error messages when the DD “SYSTCPD” with TCPIP information is missing.Now, when this...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

LTO6 support on TSM 5.5

System : AIX 6.1TSM version : 5.5Support of IBM LTO6 drive with TSM server 5.5.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Support for running TSM Server on Windows Server 2012

Hi need support for installing TSM on Windows Server 2012.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Add option to 'reclaim stg' command to allow copy pool volumes to be processed the same wasy as primary pool volumes.

I would like an option added to the 'reclaim stgpools' command to allow copy pool volumes to be processed in order of utilization, with each volume completing before moving on to the next. Basically, I'm looking for it to optionally be able to wor...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Set up different retentions of DBS volumes by diffrent device types (FILE and LTO)

We need the new function in TSM server which allows us to set up defferent DBS volume retetions by different device class types (FILE and LTO).We have two types database snapshot backups; one uses the FILE device class and another one uses the LTO...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Changing the nodes password using an additional Administration user after password expiration

Currently there are two types of client Administrators called client owner and client accessor. The big problem is that these administrators are unable to change the nodes password on their own. By the other hand these users are able to restore/ b...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Match return codes with documentation

Currently there is a disparity in the documentation vs the actual behaviour. As such I would like to see this recitified.I would like, that the following be changed in so that the 'return code 4 explanation is as follows: "The operation completed ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

Restore Volume only allows the restore of one volume at a time.

Restore Volume only allows the restore of one volume at a time. This is not at all efficient. Multiple volume restore needs to be supported.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Use pattern/glob to decide which scratch tapes to allocate

Be able to set a tape label pattern/glob against each TSM instance or storage pool, for tapes that it will use to allocate from the scratch pool. This would mean tapes could be seperated between instance or storage pool even though a library is sh...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

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