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Update the behavior of space allocation when using DEVCLASS type FILE , when more than 1 directory is specified

The file based device class allows user to specify more than 1 directory as destination to store TSM volumes. When you specify more than 1 directory, spread over multiple file system, you can have error message reported (ANR8785E) saying that we'r...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

RHEL 6 storage agent support in TSM server 6.2

We would like to see RHEL 6 storage agents supported by a new version of TSM server 6.2 to avoid a large gap in coverage when transitioning from older versions.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 2 Delivered

Better "mailbox restore" function in TDP for exchange

When using the mailbox restore, I want (miss) a checkpoint option. This options name could be "keep the restored data". It should secure that the restored data, not will be dismissed after one attemp of extracting the requested mail/calendar/conta...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Delivered

Command to make premigrated files resident again

I accidentally had some files on an HSM file system migrated to tape. These files have to sty resident all the time, they normally sould never migrate. I recalled all of them and now they are in premigrated state. According to TSM support (PMR 331...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 Delivered

add ANR messge to indicate a db2 crash recovery

when tsm server starts, the following messages appear ANR0990I Server restart-recovery in progress. ANR0152I Database manager successfully started. when ANR0152I is displayed the db2 crash recovery may take several hours to complete. a message to ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Would be usefull to be able compress when doing a backup db on disk

When we do a backup db on disk, the file take quite a lot of space. It would be a nice feature to be able to compress direclty those file. This especially useful since if we do compress the database dump (using for example bzip), it compress about...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Exchange 2010 with DAG backup active/passive DBs

TSM for Mail is currently making a difference if a mailbox database is active or passive (Exchange 2010 using DAG). So for each kind of backup there will be kept the defined number of versions. (e.g. 7 Versions should be kept, so if the database i...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Delivered

dsmrm always delivers rc=0

dsmrm always delivers a return code of 0 regardless whether the action completes successfully or not. This makes it impossible for embedded applications (dsmrm is called by a script) to control if a dsmrm ended successfully or not. Return code 0 s...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 Delivered

Linux filesystems not supported

there are some filesystems that tsm do not support, and appear as UNKNOWN on tsm, like Red Hat GFS.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

Send Email from TSM Server

Send email from TSM server.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Delivered

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