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Storage Protect Family

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Add CRITERIA objects to help manage filesystems

Add to the tsm server a criteria feature which will store a named SQL where clause to select specific volumes. The named criteria will then be a parameter on move data or reclaim commands. IMPLEMENTATION SUGGESTION. Add commands to the server: def...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Re-Map Volume Location

It would be beneficial to be able to offline a volume in a storage pool, for example your backuppool. Then at the OS level be able to manually move or copy the volume to a new physical location, log back into the TSM service and run a update vol t...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

On W2008R2 TSM doesn't provide same functionality as Microsoft WBAdmin utility to restore specific file from Systemstate BCK.

When using TSM V6.2 on W2008R2, *.exe files are backup as part of System State Backup.With TSM V6.2, it is not possible to perfrom RESTORE of specif file/s from the System State Backup.Using Microsoft utility WBAdmin to perform the Backup, it is p...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Adding a new option to the MOVE DATA command

When you issue the move data command for tape volumes, all the data moves to other volumes and the original volume becomes empty\pending\scratch (depends on the configuration). I would it to be possible to have the volume checked out automatically...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Enhance query content command

Please make the output of the query contents command ready for loading into Excel. Add or change fields, specifically - 1. Add the volume name as the first field. 2. change the stored size value to just the decimal number, don't convert it to a fo...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Enable multiple dsmc processes to share the client dedupe cache.

Client options for VCS on Linux should provide clusterdisksonly and clusternode parms (Linux client should have parity with Windows MSCS options).
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Use SSH keys linked to a user account to allow scripting to be developed without specifying account passwords in the code.

Use SSH keys linked to a user account to allow scripting to be developed without specifying account passwords in the code.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Provide the ability to perform dynamic updates to cloptset

Provide the ability to perform updates to cloptset (dynamic value changes, instead of adding new them, and deleting the old entry).
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add a server command to allow client connectivity to be tested ahead of actual use.

Add a server command to allow client connectivity to be tested ahead of actual use. This is along the same lines as PING server command, but engineered for client testing. It could validate the presence of the scheduler, or dsmcad to enable checks...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add capability in the dsmadmc shell for command completion.

The CLI is currently the best way of managing TSM – but it is basic by today's standards. If we have to run TSM from the CLI, then the ‘shell' should offer things like ‘tab completion' of commands, filter capability (INC/EXCL on command output), t...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration