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support for LTO8 drives

support for LTO8 tape drives
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Ability to script Oracle TDP config with tdpoconf

Scripting capabilities is needed for tdpoconf in order to be able to do a "silent" (no user-interaction) installation of the Oracle TDP (without having to use utilities like expect or similar).The problem has been observed on linux, but might also...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Delivered

Move TSM DB2 tempspace to a separate filesystem

TSM can crash unexpectedly. The DB2 logs indicated that the tempspace ran out of space due to heavy SQL transaction, suspected at the time to be a custom data collection script for TSM monitoring, although not confirmed. This can now be reproduced...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Introduce Timeout in DSMCAD

By default, dsmcad doesn't have any time out value. Post Rapid Force NVA 6.6.128 upgrade, the connection of NVA Scan is not closing as expected. Post Scan of TSM Client on dynamic or dedicated dsmcad port, the connection stays as active, dsmcad se...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

Reporting features to be added in Operations center

As of now, Operation center is only capable of sending the health check summary report to the mentioned email. It would be great, if it can be enhanced to send few customized reports like (backup status in last 24 Hours, Media offsiting) etc, etc
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Delivered

TSM Server should show TDP version, not API version.

As it is today, if the user tries to see detailed information about a TDP node on the TSM server, it not shows the TDP version but the API version.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

TSM support support virtualization: HyperV, Xen, Citrix

TSM need to support more virtualization platform, not only VMwar, but also, TSM support support virtualization
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Delivered

Request for FastBack Message Guide

Currently there is no document for FastBack Messages; FBSSnnnnI, FBSSnnnnW, FBSSnnnnE (nnnn are 4 digit numbers). The customer requests a document which describes all the message IDs and Explanation, System action, User response for each message I...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 3 Delivered

Require Generic TSM Client Login Failure Messages

TSM Backup/Archive Admin Client and Client display failures that are too explicit, and the requirement is that it is generic, in order to meet security requirements:.For this TSM issue, one message overlaps, that for the wrong password. This shoul...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

Duration Limit on Node Replication

Our company has a need to use node replication, but we have to restrict its operation to a limited daily window. We would like to see a duration parameter similar in function to the one provided with the expiration command. As things stand now, so...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

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