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Storage Protect Family

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Request for Live Partition Mobility (LPM) support for TSM

Customer would like TSM to support LPM support.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

enhancement of query session command

Add a new option for query session command with wild card to make it user friendly.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Enhance TSM Admin schedules so that system commands can be ran

Currently, the only way to make TSM execute system commands is via client schedules or the define client action command.I propose that the same functionality that exists in the client schedules is added to the admin schedules so that system comman...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Estimate button

Why do you have deleted on new ba client versions the button ESTIMATE? I need it, please...Thanks a lot
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Copy Stgpool enhancements

Need more options TSM copy pools.1. Command to list-tapes not copied.-Percentage of data not copied.-Number of files not copied.-Number of copies available 2. Option to promote Copypool as primary pool in case of DR and resync and revert to primar...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Change node deduplication to none with in a diskpool

Instead of having to assign a client to a separate pool that does not have deduplication enabled, an option should be available to set a node's deduplication field to none example: Update node <nodename> deduplication=none
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

XFS support with TDP for VMware

The TDP for VMware agent should support the XFS file system in addition to ext2, ext3, and ReiserFS.Why? XFS is a filesystem that allows more performant support of large data stores. It is part of RHEL and SLES.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Deleting obsolete management class generates ANR0830W messages

TSM 5.5.0 - In Policy Domain STANDARD an old, now defunct, management class was added (000IFRDATA001). The only server which it serviced (000IFRDATA001) was removed from TSM. All nodes in Policy Domain STANDARD covered and serviced by remaining ma...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Enhance the MOVE DATA and RECLAIM STG commands

A version 6 server doing dedup presents new challenges to the admin to manage the server's storagepools. These enhancements will enable the admin to target whole volume operations to achieve maximum thruput. Improve the volume selection for both i...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

No ANR0504I message, or different message, when the file wasn't restored properly

The ANR0504I message is logged even when the restore/retrieve fails. For example: Jul 10 23:19:21 lxtsm052 dsmserv-TSM52: ANR0406I Session 2601887 started for node AISDBP_ORA (TDPO Linux86-64) (Tcp/Ip dbsrvd217.cern.ch (22144)). (SESSION: 2601887)...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration