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Storage Protect Family

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policy admins need ability to remove replication configuration in order to remove node

We provide TSM as a service and grant policy rights to our server users who create/delete their own nodes, schedules, and the like. Previously, they would delete their own filesystems ande then remove the node. However, since implementing node rep...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Multi-session retreive operations

As described in Technote 1571833. Multi-session restore functionality does currently not cover archive retreive operations. We need Multi-session retreive operations like for restores.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Relabel-On-Scratch option for external library manager

When TSM Server recycles (frees) a virtual tape of a VTL this is eliminated from the TSM DB, but not from the VTL. So statistics e.g. Dedup factor are distorted over time. To prevent from this the TSM Relabel-on-Scratch option was introduced. But ...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

Which userid does restore a file ?

For tracing, for auditing reasons we want to know the TSM administrator name of the administrator which restores an object (file, directory).TSM web client is used for the restore.Looking in server actlog there are two messages ANR0503I (with the ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM should support the shared tapedrive feature of TS3500

TSM 7.1 on AIX 7.1 with TS3500 tape library. ANR8300E I/O error on Ts3500 tape library OP=(00006c03). I have 4 E07 tape drives in this physical library I have 2 logical libraries with the robotics and one tape drive assigned to each library, and t...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

TSM and Guard Point Backup Process

System: IBM TSM BA ClientActor: TSM AdministratorNeed: Update TSM BA Client TSM BA Client is used to backup and restore critical business data on thousands of servers nightly. Update the TSM BA Client for all Unix Platforms to backup and restore G...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Message ANR0422W should be changed when an admin fails the connection.

Message ANR0422W should be changed when an admin fails the connection. This makes some reporting / alerting tools to believe that a backup may be configured incorrectly when it's clearly not the case.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic migation of the TSM DB and Log volumes from one OS volume to another.

We need to migrate the TSM DB and log volume from one Os volume to another dynamically. WE have performed this activity in the previous version of TSM and it worked perfect. Seems like that capability is missing in the newer versions.. For Ex: I u...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add preview support to restore

Ability to run a restore in preview mode that outputs what would be restored if the restore was to be run with the given parameters. Ability to restore only those affected files into another location
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 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

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