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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Enhance query content command

Please make the output of the query contents command ready for loading into Excel. Add or change fields, specifically - 1. Add the volume name as the first field. 2. change the stored size value to just the decimal number, don't convert it to a fo...
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Use SSH keys linked to a user account to allow scripting to be developed without specifying account passwords in the code.

Use SSH keys linked to a user account to allow scripting to be developed without specifying account passwords in the code.
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Provide the ability to perform dynamic updates to cloptset

Provide the ability to perform updates to cloptset (dynamic value changes, instead of adding new them, and deleting the old entry).
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add a server command to allow client connectivity to be tested ahead of actual use.

Add a server command to allow client connectivity to be tested ahead of actual use. This is along the same lines as PING server command, but engineered for client testing. It could validate the presence of the scheduler, or dsmcad to enable checks...
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add capability in the dsmadmc shell for command completion.

The CLI is currently the best way of managing TSM – but it is basic by today's standards. If we have to run TSM from the CLI, then the ‘shell' should offer things like ‘tab completion' of commands, filter capability (INC/EXCL on command output), t...
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM 6 space reclamations very slow

Space reclamation of a normal (non-dedupe) storage pool from a deduplicated storage pool is very slow. In our environment we have onsite deduplicated pools and offsite copies that are made daily and taken off site. The impact is that only tapes wi...
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Tape open/closes in actlog need process ids.

When a single admin command creates multiple processes, (eg maxpr=2), each of which opens/closes tapes, the session number of the admin is shown in the actlog message, but not the process number. Please add the process number to the open/close act...
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Include command (eg incremental) on query session f=d

The output of query session f=d does not include the command (incremental, restore, archive, etc.) Add the command to the output.
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM file devclass support for multiple directories

When defining file type of devclass, the directory options can be multiple directories. define devc fileclass devtype=file directory=/back1,/back2 Currently the backup will not use the second directory /back2 unless its size is smaller than /back1...
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

TSM Scripting : Add a "FOR" construct

Add a FOR loop construct similar to UNIX/Windows scripting
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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