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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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The customer is an MSP and would like to save weekly, monthly and yearlys. He is new to TSM and would like to have tape rotation for audit purposes. The only way to do this in TSM today is 1) archive which creates a lot of duplicated data 2) backu...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

TSM UPGRADE TO 7.1 CAUSES CLIENTS PASSWORD TO BE INVALID AND BACKUPS ARE NO LONGER POSSIBLE UNTIL AGENT IS RECYCLED!!

We upgraded to TSM 7.1 on yesterday in our smallest TSM environment. However, we experienced one hiccup that is extremely alarming. As clients connect to the TSM server after the upgrade, they are unable to communicate with the TSM server because ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Incorporation of a way to change the priority of volume selection while restoring data

There is no way to change the priority of volume selection while restoring data in current TSM release.The customer would like to specify explicitly the priority of volume selection when restoring data.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Multiple DSMSERV can start using the SAME ID

Enhance TSM Server code v7.x to recognize and prevent the task dsmserv to start multiple times under the same user ID. To prevent downtime caused by accidentally starting second instance using same ID. Current Activity if second instance is starte...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

No errors report for schedules with a status of SEVERED

When a scheduled backup gets a "session severed" error (brecause of a comms failure/client OS problem/client reboots/loss of power at client site) the schedule is updated with a status of severed.No backup failure messages are generated on the TSM...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Addition of DURATION=mmm parameter to BACKUP STGPOOL command

On several occations my TSM customers have been short on scratch tapes for a long period, building up a huge backlog of data that should be backed up up to a copy storage pool. When the scratch shortage is over, the daily scripts never finishes, s...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

When using dedup, occupancy tables show wrong information

When using dedup, occupancy tables shows less space being used, than what is actually being used. This is described here:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21614080"Occupancy size discrepancy with deduplication"This poses a big probl...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

TSM and T10kD drive compatibility

Hi, is there a planned release date for tape drive T10kD compatibility with TSM ?Is there an early adopter program fo test of this drive with tsm? Thank you Daniele
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

TSM Server restores from physical library instead of Virtual one

TSM Server restores from physical library instead of Virtual one. This is due to TSM looks in the pools which needs less mount points to restore the files. This is a big problem for restoring files because our customer has set up lanfrees against ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

native access on TSM db2

On TSM Server 6.3.X as in TSM server 6.2.X:<br /><br />By external hosts over tsm server, give native access on db2 in read-only mode
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

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