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Storage Protect Family

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Optimize Write IO behaviour on DISK

Using diskpools (deviceclass=disk) or filepools (deviceclass=file) on a non-cached disk system is very slow, and therefore not usable. Example (same setup in both cases):TSM write to diskpoolon 8x Internal DISK = 8MB/sAIX cp command on 8x Internal...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Reload ssl config without restarting server

Enable reload of ssl/tsl config without restarting the server.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

New options to TSM server query session command

Query session option to display only sessions for a specific node. Query session option to display only specific sessions type.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Support for ClientUpdate in NAT'ed setup

A sort of auto-detect mechanism would be nice for the ClientUpdate function - in order to detect which tcpserver address and tcp port number the client uses for communication.This is required, if client and the server are seperated ny at NAT'ing f...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Exclude VMs based on VM size/.vmdk size with dsm.opt/cloptset exclusion

With the explosion of virtual machines taking over our datacenters, using TSM for Virtual Environments is crucial to successfully protecting the data in our IT organizations. It is obvious that there is no "one size fits all" tool for protecting t...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Command required to terminate tape optimization recall

No command is available to terminate a tape optimization recall(TOR).Now you need to invoke "ctrl+c" if you have access to the shell in which the dsmrecall is running, or search its process ID and issue "kill SIGTERM". dsmq + dsmrm can be used for...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

Need a function displaying the recalls optimized for tape access

Currently you are not able to see which file is being recalled in case of tape optimization recall(TOR).The dsmq command is not applicable to TOR.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Not under consideration

Proactive alert on backup policy change or modify in IBM spectrum protect server for prod

To avoid data loss, IBM spectrum protect to Alert or warn proactively on the production server
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

BA client bind to specific IP

We need to run multiple DSMC SCHED on the same windows machine and we use sessioninit=serveronly. Due to firewall restrictions we are required to use only 1 single port. For each DSMC SCHED we have a separate IP and defined tcpclientaddress in dsm...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE snapshots

System: TSM for VE 6.4.0New feature request for future release Description: TSM for VE requests VM snapshot creation at the beginning of a backup and snapshot removal at backup completion. No monitoring is done to ensure the snapshot has been remo...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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