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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Avoiding inventory mismatches between TSM and library after library hard-stop

After severe library problems, e.g.. a hard-stop due to an accessor problem, when the library is taken offline for fixing (in our case a TS3500), tapes remain loaded in drives. After the solution of the problem the tapes are automatically moved to...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

TSM support for EMC DD Boost

I have 2 large customers requesting support for DD Boost.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

set policies for retentions within TSM

NOTE: Colin Dawson is aware of this RFETivoli SSAM/TSM Couldn't policies for retention be set by one person and then validated and activated by another? Four Eyes principle. Needed to prevent single persons from deleting content.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM awareness on the health of DB2

We experienced an event whereby, due to some hardware error, a DB2 proces db2sync, was killed by the OS. This event was recorded in the db2diag.log and in the /var/adsm/messages file. There was no external evidence that this event occurred, that i...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

Security around TSM Restores - Logging restores and restricting restores to Admins

Requests1) There is no way to monitor what files are being restored by what TSM admin. I notice that just a session established is logged on the server but what was restored and by whom is seen as a security risk in a area which transient staff. L...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM - group backup

The group backup of TSM spends space every file now. I suggest a change to manage one group as one object (with TOC) for the purpose of holding down the consumption of the TSM database.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Allow the TSM DEVADD command to add multiple library devices to a Solaris zone

This RFE is opened based on feedback provided by pmr 03415,072,649. We would like to see support for redundant paths to library manager devices by the TSM device drivers specifically when executing the DEVADD command. What we are trying to achieve...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Can we generate a month or year backup to TSM's archive function?

Reference FITS - MR0507106015 Can we generate a month or year backup to TSM's archive function? There are two important reasons: - A modification to backup retention or -version policies will result in (partial) data loss - TSM's backup function w...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Need way to access the tsm database via ODBC

Before TSM V6 we had a very simple way to access the tsm database via ODBC. This driver works fine with Products like MS Excel or MS Access. With V6 we only can use alternatively the ODBC Driver for DB2, which is much more complex to setup. Not al...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Enhance "identify duplicates" to allow "wait = yes"

Enhance the "identify duplicates" command with "wait=yes" capability.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

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