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Storage Protect Family

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sort order of query occupancy command

With version 6 of TSM server the sorting order of "query occupancy"has changed from "fsid" to "alphabetical order". Why? The sorting order of commands "query filespace" (sorted by fsid)and "query ocupancy" should be the same. My opinion: This is a...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

make CANCEL REPL end the replication process under any and all circumstances

delev245 = repltargetdelev245 is not responsible, but running. Ping server delev245 also hangs this situationwas caused by an unresponsive target linux host. ALL replsource servers have to be restarted. How to recover from a hanging "Cancelling re...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Make the time interval for "ANR3654W Inventory file expiration processing did not run in the previous 24 hours" configurable

The message ANR3654W is shown even if an expire inventory schedule was executed every day at 4pm, because the detailed time frame including seconds is checked for the message. The request is either check not on detailed second (maybe a minute or 5...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Performance drop when performing an Hyper-V

Performance drop when performing an Hyper-V backup of a Hyper-V guest that has a disk hosted on another Hyper-V node
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

label libvol command needs revision

When checkin or labeling lib volumes TSM by default ignores the barcode even if one is present. There is no confirmation to the user and no indication that what they did isn't using the external label. Soo it is possible that the barcode is differ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TDP SQL files under "Default" management class

System: TDP SQL 6.3.xActor: UserDescription: if the user do not specify a management class when doing a backup the files will be placed under a management class called "Default", wich is a reserved name and does not really exist.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Not under consideration

Support syncronous write with ndmp backup

define stgpool says, that "simultaneous-write function is not supported for NAS backup operations". It would remove the necessesity to copy all tapes to a copypool after each NDMP backup.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Enhance logging of replication failures

We are using node replication between two TSM 6.3.2.0 servers, and were experiencing some replication failures, which was due to operator error. The issue was that one policy domain on the source server did not exist on the target server, so the r...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Solaris x86 TSM Client support beyond version 6.2.5

Currently the latest version of the TSM client is the 6.2.x client code. There are only Solaris SPARC versions available in later releases. We would like to see the x86 platforms supported.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Allocation of (file-based) Scratch Volumes

For file-based storage pools only.1. TSM does not take into account free space in the fileystem when allocating new Scratch volumes2. Owing to 1 if new disk (filesystems) are added there is no fuction that will "even out" disk usage. This RFE is t...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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