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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Option to start DSMSERV in "standalone" or "maintenance" mode

I would like to be able to start DSMSERV with an option that disables reclamation, administrative schedules, expiration and client sessions. I know it it possible to disable reclamation, expiration and administrative schedules by editing the dsmse...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to delete files by management class to the delete filespace command

Add option to restrict the data deletion of the delete filespace to a specific management class or classes.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Server version history

Sometimes it is necessary to known what time you did run which version on your TSM server. For example when you may affected by an APAR(IC71049) which should be fixed in the current version you are running, but you still have older volumes affecte...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

can se all (including Libsharing session from/to LibMGR)

After network errors you may have sessions between LIBMGR and LIBCL in a hanging state or waiting for Hours . You are not able to cancel these type of session with the “can se all” command. In large environments or with many hanging sessions you h...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Provide a server command to reassign ownership of a filespace

Provide a server function/command to move ownership of an existing filespace from one node to another. This need for this function occurs due to host server consolidation in a data center. When old fileservers are retired, it is not uncommon for t...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

allow deduplicated tape copy pools for storage pool backup purposes

Currently, only FILE pools can be deduplicated and TAPE pools can not. The reason is that a restore from a deduplicated TAPE pool would be unuseable due to excessive number of tape mounts. We understand this. However, we would still like to see th...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Server is backing up transaction logs twice

The TSM Server is backing up the transaction logs twice. 1. The DB2 is automatically backing up the transaction logs to ARCHIVELOGDIR; at each log switch.2. The TSM Server will backup the db2 database using: DB2 BACKUP DB TSMDB1 ONLINE USE TSM Due...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Flexible NDMP Backups

What we wanna change is how TSM control the NDMP dumps and assigning theMGMT Class to each object.We want to make sure when I assign a MGMT Class to my dedicated backup.Then should that backup be save for that amount of time and not change thehist...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Ability to cancel administrative schedule session

Many TSM environments use administrative schedules in conjunction with TSM scripts to perform daily maintenance activities. When running a multi-step script from an administrative schedule, the TSM server appears to use an internal session (comple...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Simultaneous Write for Lanfree Backup

Currently TSM supports Simultaneous Write during Backup to several Pools only in LAN-Backup mode. The Lanfree Storage Agents do not support Simultaneous Write.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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