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Storage Protect Family

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TSM on GPFS quota support

del fi on repl target using dedup and GPFS . Problembeschreibung when running some del fi on a repl target using dedub and having DB, LOG and STGP on GPFS caused by the Dedup Deletion Worker the archlog was used to the given maximum by quota, i gu...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Ignore/Skip Windows RC Codes during Backup

As you can see in the PMR we got a big problem with some files on a netapp filer. This files were created by randomly by netapp filer. Problem is that these files have no owner, or other NTFS securitys so an windows RC appears if the BA Client try...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

Ability to migrate TSM DB from AIX to x86 Linux server

Our Server Support team manages and supports hundreds of x86 Linux and MS Windows servers, and are very efficient and adept at doing so. They have retired all older Solaris and AIX servers. However, we still run our TSM servers on AIX, because tha...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Enable REST via commandline

REST API has to be enabled using Open Webbrowser, Login, and Check the "Enable REST" Checkbox.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Windows 10 support

Please let us know when there is a TSM Windows client available to support Windows 10 operating system.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Option to display session and process numbers without commas

Displaying sessions (q sess) or processes (q pro) without commas will allow an administrator to cut/paste session/process numbers into other commands (can sess xxxxx) quickly and accurately . this will eliminate the need to display and manually in...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Hyper-V support on Windows Nano or Core servers

Customer has about to move from VMware to Hyper-V for the hypervisor. They are going to install Hyper-V on Windows Nano or Core and they are looking for either of these to become a supported platform for the Data Mover and the Recovery Agent.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect should have an oracle agent that replaces RMAN entirely, so proper object metadata can be handled internally, allow proper expeiration, retsets, etc.

Spectrum Protect has long been plagued by retention problems with Oracle backups. RMAN owns all of the metadata, and keeping this in sync requires sync tools, etc. In large environments, often the DBA team and the Backup team are separated. This l...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

TSM for VE support on Windows 2016

Our VM team would like to upgrade their environment but are limited to only be able to run the TSM for VE software on a Windows 2016 server.TSM for VE is not currently supported on Windows 2016.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM Server "Define Clientaction" Command Issue

System: TSM Server all versions Actor: Define Clientaction Command need to be trimmed with "REQUIRED" parameters. Description: TSM Server, "define clientaction" command is not having any required paramters right now. If we run "define clientaction...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

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