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Spectrum Protect for Space Management

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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

HSM Recalls slow with sparse files.

Files that are sparse can take an exceptional length of time to recall from tape.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 Not under consideration

HSMのスタブファイル単位でのリカバリー機能の追加

マイグレーション後に作成されるスタブファイルを削除してしまった場合、ファイルのリカバリーはdsmmigundeleteコマンドでファイルシステム単位でしかできない仕様になっています。前述の仕様をファイル単位でもリカバリーできるように仕様変更をお願いします。
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 Not under consideration

TSM Space Management IPv6 support

SONAS is a strategic product for our customer. Customer has a need to install IPv6. So SONAS will support IPv6 in the near future all the involved components must support IPv6. One of these components is TSM Space Management. Therefore TSM Space M...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 Not under consideration

Request for 64Bit HSM Client Package for AIX System

We have installed 64Bit BAClient 6.2.2.0 in all AIX clients. There is a customer requirement to deploy HSM on 1000+ AIX Client.As per the PMR support we have downloaded the HSM pacakage CZGL7ML.tar.gz from passport advantage site. We tried to extr...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 Not under consideration

Make TSM HSM client auto-repair ANS9418W/ANS9414E issue

Certain dsmmigfs commands (e.g. dsmmigfs restart) may fail and report the following problems: ANS9418W dsmmigfs: Cannot access the GPFS SDR for writing. It might be locked, or the var filesystem might be full.ANS9414E dsmmigfs: Unable to create DS...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 4 Not under consideration