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Storage Protect Family

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Working as designed -- Content of dsm.opt file disappeared?

Content of dsm.opt file can be lost
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

DECOMMISSION NODE' is not updating RETENTION RULE

Retrule contains decom vm nodes which result in failed retention set copy.Decommission node do not update retention rule so that every decomission node action requires a manual maintenance for the retention rule
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Is a defect

Provide a way to show running TSM scripts and to cancel them

Currently there is now way to show which TSM scripts have been startet and furthermore they cannot be stopped. The only way to finish a script prematurely is to cancel every process that is startet by the script or to define exit conditions such a...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

systemd init scripts with BA client on linux platforms

Given that all supported Linux platforms by the Tivoli Storage Manager B/A client have shifted to systemd init, provide both systemv and systemd startup scripts and either make a decision at install time or let users choose which method to use aft...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

Improve NQR Performance

When doing an NQR on Nodes with tens of millions of files, the initial TSM database search and sort operation which takes place on the server takes several hours. We noticed that the hardware resource utliziation (CPU, DB2 Disks) is not very high ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM for VE: Enhance Scheduling

Enhance the limitations of the ‚options=‘-Flag of TSM Schedules.Today: 512 Characters Limitation. Must be >= 2048 Characters to cover more than 30 VMs per schedule
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Operations Center timeout

In Operations Center we would like to see an option to set a time out level for the OC, where after a set period of time (in our case 15 minutes) of inactivity, meaning you have not clicked or refreshed your web page, you are sent back to the logi...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

SQL Service User per SQL instance

We're currently having a customer who wants to backup multiple SQL Failover Cluster Instances but don't want to specify only one service user for Spectrum Protect Plus which has all the sysadmin rights over all instances running in the SQL Cluster...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TSM for VE / Reporting Enhancements / Software Compliance-Compatability report

Integrated report between TSM/VE and vCenter on Software versions for the following components: . vCenter . ESXihost . VM Hardware . VMtools . TSM/VE Server . TSM/VE Datamover
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM for VE / Reporting Enhancement / VE Configuration report for troubleshooting & restores

VE Configuration report for restores to include the following columns: . VM Name . VM OS Platform . ESXi Cluster name . Datamover VE name . Datamover hostname . TSM/VE Server . Mount Proxy VE Name (based on the VM OS platform) . Mount Proxy hostname
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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