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Storage Protect Family

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TSM should support the shared tapedrive feature of TS3500

TSM 7.1 on AIX 7.1 with TS3500 tape library. ANR8300E I/O error on Ts3500 tape library OP=(00006c03). I have 4 E07 tape drives in this physical library I have 2 logical libraries with the robotics and one tape drive assigned to each library, and t...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect server activity log to show detailed file restore and tape volume.

Hi Team, As a requirement for auditing we would like to have the server actlog show the file restore in detail and the tape volume it was restored. At the moment we have to restore from the client using restore/pick option and screen shot to...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Functionality already exists

Dynamic migation of the TSM DB and Log volumes from one OS volume to another.

We need to migrate the TSM DB and log volume from one Os volume to another dynamically. WE have performed this activity in the previous version of TSM and it worked perfect. Seems like that capability is missing in the newer versions.. For Ex: I u...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect (TSM) version 7.1.7 certification with Informix ONBAR 12.10

I want to know if the product Spectrum Protect (TSM) version 7.1.7 is certified to work with Informix ONBAR 12.10
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

RENAME COLLOCGROUP command requested

Provide the ability to rename collocation groups with a command similar to RENAME COLLOCGROUP.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Define a launch window by SLA

The need is to be able to set an SLA time from which everything left in the queue in the SLA is canceled.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IT Infrastruct Analyst

Based on the case TS003038751, we would like to suggest the improvement in the product IBM Spectrum Protect Plus hypervisor inventory. When I have some host in "maintainance mode" in Vsphere environment the jobs show a lot warmings logs because o ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Restore Performance of an SQL Database using ISP4VE

When using Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment with Application Consistent Backup for SQL Databases, the restore Performance for SQL Database is far to slow.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM Clean Frequency enhancement

Please allow a terabyte option in addition to gigabytes for the clean frequency for tape drives.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Migration process should skip locked files

Under certain conditions, the TSM server will try to migrate volumes that are locked by client backup sessionsl and simply wait for the volume to free up. This happens on a long-running (slow) backdup, or when a session does not terminate properly...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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