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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Population of the "Remarks" field in both SYSCAT.TABLES and SYSCAT.COLUMNS

This is not actually a request for a "new" feature, but the return of one that previously existed in TSM v5. The "Remarks" field in both the SYSCAT.TABLES and SYSCAT.COLUMNS schema's used to be populated with a description of each table and/or col...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Additional error status restore timeout

There is no way to check whether TSM restore is running in a normal way if session does not establish successfully. Customer met this situation that TSM failed to establish a session for restore. In this case, TSM restore process never finished wi...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Using TSM Server in a Library Manager role

This RFE is opened to request a design change for the TSM Server acting in a role of the dedicated library manager (LM) for either physical and/or logical tape library or libraries. .In a large environment consisting of multiple physical and/or vi...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

TSM node replication feature : many to many

Our customer wants to have the possibility to do a 3 site replication copies. They are interested in to do replication from site 1 to site2 and 3 of same nodes.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

MOVE NODEDATA from random access pools

MOVE NODEDATA should allow operations on DISK storage pools, for both source and target.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Allow policy domain admin to modify client option set

Policy Domain administrators are not able to modify client option sets. You should be able to grant authority to allow policy domain admins to modify a client option set.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

IDLETIMEOUT Large DB Recovery

We recently could not restore a large SQL DB backed up via TDP with Lan free client. We altered the following parameters on server and lan free side... COMMTIMEOUT 30000 IDLETIMEOUT 300 RESOURCETIMEOUT 300 Our major concern is we beleive the IDLET...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Allow dedupe of objects ovr 2TB

Dedupe processing should handle objects of any size.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

It takes a long time to start / terminate TSM Server after DB backup

After db backup, TSM server does not quickly start or terminate because of waiting for expanding a truncated log of DB2. A real case at solaris environment is that it took 14 minutes to stop TSM server. That means it wiil also take 14 minutes to s...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Ability to Archive Deleted Data

I would like the ability to archive inactive data as well as active data at a directory (folder) level.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 7 Not under consideration

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