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Storage Protect Family

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Dropdown lists for Restore VM operations

It would be nice to have the client populate the Datacenter, Host,, and Datastore options in the Restore VM screen.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

Q STGP to display % free as well as % Util

It would be handy to have Q STGP display what is truely avaliable for use in a storage pool, rather than just what is utilised. If you run the command it will show you how much disk is currently in use, but unless you also look at Q VOL STGP=<P...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

reduce install size of TSM Server

Currently the size of the TSM V6 server is 1.6 - 1.8GB. This is regardless of a fresh install, upgrade or minor fix install. The majority of the space appears to be consumed by db2. We have 1200 TSM servers, mostly located at remote sites with low...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Dedup info command

A tool for information of the status of DedupQ DEDUPlike 'sh dedupdeleteinfo' witch is a undocumented one
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Planned for future release

Dsmserv commands need date/time stamps

All output from stand-along dsmserv commands should be prefixed with date/time stamps.� It would be nice to be able to easily calculate how long something like a restore db takes.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Update KSK SCHEDULE attribute group to allow schedule failures/misses to be monitored in ITM

The ability to create 'Pure' monitoring situations against the KSK SCHEDULE attribute group to allow for situations to fire when a node's scheduled backup execution results in a terminal condition (i.e. Failed or Missed). Currently, if a situation...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Planned for future release

Need TSM Client 6.3 and 64-bit API support in Sysback

We use Tivoli Storage Manager for System Backup and Recovery (aka Sysback) to backup and restore rootvg for our AIX servers. Sysback has always required the TSM Client 32-bit API for operation. Beginning with TSM Client 6.3, there will no longer b...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Planned for future release

Change dsmc selective to handle *, ?, doublequote, singlequote as nonmetacharacters

We want Linux GPFS mmbackup to backup all files that are legal in GPFS. Certain filenames currently cannot be backed up from mmbackup (RedHat Enterprise Linux5.6 (64bit), GPFS 3.3.0-14, TSM client 6.2.2.0, TSM server 6.1.2.1) because of the presen...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Planned for future release

ANR0157W Database operation FETCH for table Import. Groups failed with result code 4522

ACTION TAKEN: Hello TSM, according to DB2 information center: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9r7/topic/com.ibm.db2.luw.messages.sql.doc/doc/msql01224n.html The SQL1224 has various rc's (reason code). And we have rc = 3 for NUM_LOG_SPAN:...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

TSM BA restore from mounted vmdk files

Eliminate backup of windows client, and restore data from mounted vmdk files directly on the vm (and from the vm).
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

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