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Storage Protect Family

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Advanced Analytics and cataloging for Spectrum Protect

At present, Spectrum Protect does not seem to provide an advanced method of querying its database to find things such as duplicated files around the environment, file ownership, usage by owner, etc. This capability can make it difficult to find ob...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

syslog receiver for linux

Feature to allow TSM to externalise events through a reciver that can put events into syslog without the need for external scripting.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

‘Max retries' and ‘wait time' value for VM backups

One of our TDPVE datamover has been logging the following message for 3 days:ANS0361I DIAG: The VDDK Utility Thread may be hung processing another request.ANS0361I DIAG: Waiting up to another 3600000 milliseconds to process a request to VddkFullVM...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Tool to reset damaged files without "audit volume"

Sometimes there is some error condition while the TSM server is reading a tape (tape failure, drive failure, network failure, other). In many of these cases, the TSM server marks the files it could not read as "damaged". The standard way of making...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect for Virtusl Enviroments

Hello, The tech note tells me do not backup the guests using one schedule due to the 512 charter limitation. We want to use one schedule. Currently TSM for VE backup schedules will only backup one schedule at a time, if the schedule doesn't comple...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

TDP for Oracle Parallel Backup to Multiple TSM Servers

Backup/restore performance in TSM TDP environments can be increased through the addition of TSM servers that rman uses for backups and restores. A solution that does not require manual scripting would make this functionality easier to use and offl...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

change schedules in vcenter with ie10

i cannot changes schedules in vcenter with ie10
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Skip or Exclude Virtual Machine SRM Placeholders

During a backup of VM's, TSM for VE does not recognize SRM Placeholders as unique and attempts to back them up like a regular VM, but since they are not true VM's, the backups fail. Need a way to have TSM for VE recognize SRM placeholders and skip...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Migrate Inactive Data from StoragePools

Need the ability to migrate inactive data from storage pools. When large disk pools are used (typically with dedup) and these pools fill, there is no way to automatically migrate data in a selective manner. Using Age based migration rules results ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Need to add retention period for event FILETEXTEXIT

Please provide options for managing the size or age of the text file written by the FILETEXT exit. Currently we are using this option to collect the events and would be good if there is an option to manage the size of the file.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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