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Storage Protect Family

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API failures in SUMMARY table, please

I want the SUMMARY table kept by the TSM server to include BACKUP and ARCHIVE activities with Successful=No for API activities just like they're kept for "regular" (OS) client activities.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Query or report to show nodes/volumes that are not collocated

There is a need to have a query command to show which nodes and/or volumes are not abiding by the collocation settings. eg tsm: TEST > q collocvol Volume collocation_type count stateP02235L5 Group 1 OKP02222L5 Group 2 ERRORP02257L5 SPACE 1 OKP0...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Add more specific error messages when DD SYSTCPD is missing in a batch JCL in z/OS that is trying to connect with TSM server.

Add more specific error messages when DD SYSTCPD is missing in a batch JCL in z/OS that is trying to connect with TSM server. We would like to have more detailed error messages when the DD “SYSTCPD” with TCPIP information is missing.Now, when this...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Add "number of copies/locations/storagepools" to q archive client output

We want to be able to be able to see from the client how many locations an archive is stored. A location being a storage pool. ie if it's in two storage pools it is in 2 locations. An additional detail parameter could be displayed as egStoragepool...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

HSMのスタブファイル単位でのリカバリー機能の追加

マイグレーション後に作成されるスタブファイルを削除してしまった場合、ファイルのリカバリーはdsmmigundeleteコマンドでファイルシステム単位でしかできない仕様になっています。前述の仕様をファイル単位でもリカバリーできるように仕様変更をお願いします。
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 Not under consideration

Tivoli Data Protection for 32bit Lotus Domino on 64bit Windows server

Would it be possible to build a combined TDP package for 32bit Lotus Domino on 64bit Windows server? This package was previously known as (x86_x64) for version 5 however it is not available for version 6
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

Allow FastBack DR Hub replication to have both a scheduled Start AND STOP time to limit impact on Business applications.

In DR Configuration / DR Scheduler / Advanced panel, add the ability to schedule a specific time for the DR Replication to Stop, on specified days. This would allow the DR Replication to start at the same time every day, but on certain days, ie we...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

LTO6 support on TSM 5.5

System : AIX 6.1TSM version : 5.5Support of IBM LTO6 drive with TSM server 5.5.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Add option to 'reclaim stg' command to allow copy pool volumes to be processed the same wasy as primary pool volumes.

I would like an option added to the 'reclaim stgpools' command to allow copy pool volumes to be processed in order of utilization, with each volume completing before moving on to the next. Basically, I'm looking for it to optionally be able to wor...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Improve interface for includes and excludes in the TSM client

Includes and excludes are difficult to configure for novice users (even for some experienced admins). I believe we could get much better adoption of TSM in our environment if there was a config wizard that would build the include/exclude files. A ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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