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Spectrum Protect for Space Management

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Command required to terminate tape optimization recall

No command is available to terminate a tape optimization recall(TOR).Now you need to invoke "ctrl+c" if you have access to the shell in which the dsmrecall is running, or search its process ID and issue "kill SIGTERM". dsmq + dsmrm can be used for...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

Need a function displaying the recalls optimized for tape access

Currently you are not able to see which file is being recalled in case of tape optimization recall(TOR).The dsmq command is not applicable to TOR.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Not under consideration

dsmmigundelete command re-create stub files for individual files

When space management migrate file to TSM storage, a stub file created in place of the original file, in some case, user need to recover one or more stub files because it deleted by mistake, and if these file are not protect by B/A client, the onl...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 0 Not under consideration

Please Expand the Maximum value for HSMMAXRECALLTAPEDRIVES

The maximum value for HSMMAXRECALLTAPEDRIVES is too low to use. I wish the maximum value can be set up to 128.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

TSM for Space Management - file expiration

The current release of TSM for Space Management (Unix) has a migfileexpiration option that "Specifies the number of days a copy of a migrated or premigrated file remains in storage after it is modified on your local file system, or deleted from yo...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 3 Not under consideration

Provide general ability for the ordinary user to use SpMg Tape Optimized Recall

The Tape Optimized Recall (TOR) feature finally being provided in the TSM client 6.3 should immediately be "expanded" to allow the ordinary user to take advantage of this long sought feature. The (initial) root limitation on TOR is severely limiti...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 4 Not under consideration

Information for SpMg file systems (dsmdf) should be displayable on all nodes in an HSM cluster; not just on the mgmt node

Information for SpMg file systems (through the provided standard tool dsmdf) should be displayable on all nodes in an HSM cluster; not just on the mgmt node. More than just being a convenient feature to see the file system state, inode information...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 Not under consideration

Linux StorageAgent installs via RPM

With the release of TSM 7 there is no longer an RPM released to install the TIVsm-stagent package in Linux.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 0 Not under consideration

TSM for Space management - reconciliation preview

The reconciliation command (dsmhsmclc) in TSM for Space Management (Windows) has an option (reconcilemode=emulation) to preview the results of running reconciliation on a filesystem without actually deleting any objects from the TSM server. The eq...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 Not under consideration

TSM for Space Management - dsmmigundelete

The User's guide for current release of TSM for Space Management (Unix) states: "You cannot use the dsmmigundelete command to re-create stub files for individual files or specific groups of files." In practice it is often necessary to restore indi...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 0 Not under consideration

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