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Multiple Expire Inventory processes

Option to be able to run multiple processes of EXPIRE INVENTORY. Command could be EXPIRE INVENTORY EIPR=n up to Tivoli acceptable maximum (say 5?). Default would still be one. This would also be applicable to running multiple EXPIRE INVENTORY NODE...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Limit memory usage of dsmls

"dsmls -R", called at the root directory of a file system tree with many entries, may crash the system (SLES 11 SP1 with GPFS).In the scenario of PMR 09701,SGC,724 the dsmls process consumed so much kernel memory, that Linux killed the GPFS daemon...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 4 Delivered

Query for the backed up amount of data of database backup

When we used the TSM 6.2.1.1 we used a command "QUERY VOLHIST TYPE=DBBACKUP", But since we upgraded to 6.3.1 the field that shows the backed up amount of data has been deprecated.Therefore i now have to sort through the activity log to see if it w...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

NAS: NFS support for Random Volumes

Our customer wants to have support for random volumes over NFS. They are using two NAS and both are replicated via Storage Subsystem, then the file pool creates a lot of problems because of reclamation, each time TSM reclaims, the pools move a lot...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Monitoring Tivoli Storage Manager, lenght of Contact Field

In TSM Monitoring and AdminCenter Common Reporting 6.3.1, the lenght of the Node Contact field appears to be only 20 characters. Please extend it to the lenght allowed by TSM.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

TSM provides an interface/function to drive a scsi VERIFY command to a tape

The customer is looking for a way within TSM to verify data on tape is still valid. They would like to be able to invoke the VERIFY tape scsi command via TSM to check tapes periodically over time. They plan to write data to tape and want to verify...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Client Schedule Log Date/time Stamp

I am requesting the ability of the TSM client to include the date/time stamp on each line of the schedule log when the TSM client is invoked from a script instead of a TSM schedule.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

Provide a means for restoring the TSM DB without having a copy of the volume history file on hand.

There needs to be a way of recovering the TSM DB by specifying which tape to recover from. This would be similar to what was available in V5 with;> dsmserv restore db volumenames={volume_id} devc={tapedevclass} commit=yes
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Delivered

Error messages for clearly incorrect include-exclude rules etc.

I've often noticed our users having trouble with exclude rules and I was wondering if you could put in some basic error reporting. Errors reported on-screen as soon as the TSM GUI is run would be ideal, as already happens with the message "ANS1036...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

'dsmcutil updatepw' returns same message for locked node and incorrect password

Our TSM for Windows installer needs to check in with all nine of our backup servers when it runs on a client machine, in order to configure the TSM client software correctly. It then saves the correct tcpserveraddress and tcpport into dsm.opt for ...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

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