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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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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

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

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

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

Provide strong authentication between TSM Server and TEC applications

The Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Server application should be able to provide strong authentication to Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) application, in order to provide security between both TSM and TEC servers and also to attend the ITCS 104 secti...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Patra:SAS Tape Problem

We would like TSM to supoort SAS Tape. TSM detect TS3100 as LTO device class but TSM detect SAS tape as GENERIC. So we can't restore data with different device class. SAS Tape Model:7216-1U2IBM Multi-media Enclosure - DAT160 SAS Tape Drive - HHLTO...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 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

Password sync between NODE ADMIN and NODE.

Password generation on Administrators with NODE access, to keep it in sync with automatically updated NODE passwords. In order to prevent message ANR0470W, when using VSS backups.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Tivoli Sales Specialist

Support TSM Server for Solaris x86
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration