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Storage Protect Family

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Keepalive option for Library client mount requests

Require library client sessions to use a keepalive or retry mechanism to keep from being timed out by firewalls. Library client is in one part of the network, library manager is in another, separated by firewall. Security rules insist that a timeo...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Keep alive packets

I would like the client and server to send and answer keep alive packets on the main restore connection so that stateful firewalls will not time out the connection when the restore takes a long time due to many tape mounts or other reasons. It's o...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

TSM VE Support - include option to specify a DATACENTER in option file

There currently is no include option to specify a DATACENTER. Please add it
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Improve the DRP extraction

DR plan scripts is based on the assumption that TSM is recovered to the original TSM server system where the group, the user who owns the instance, the directories and the instance already exist.I think it is good to add commands to check if the g...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

IBM Tape Device Driver for LTO - suppress internal speed control for big tape copy operations

Performance Problems with TSM Tape to Tape Workloads on IBM LTO Drives at the customer Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ)The customer openend the PMR 013FP4Y,724 on this case (the format doesn't fit the PMR ID field in this form).
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Add an option to disable Client Option Set Replication

Please add an option to allow TSM admins to disable the replication of Client Option Sets during a REPLICATE NODE operation, or to prevent the generation of ANR1946W messages (or perhaps only an information message).
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Fast way to determine tape location of archive data

A fast way to determine what tapes contain archive data with a particular description. This could also be extended to which tape(s) conatina an archived/backed up file. The query we have to use to determine this information is excrutiatingly slow....
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Bandwitdth management

The need is for a TSM client to dynamically modify its behaviour depending on the available bandwith
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

Additional controls allowing TSM server "delete filespace" command

A global TSM deployment with many TSM servers. Our organization has identified an issue with the current TSM Administrator support framework. The issue is the TSM support team currently has access to TSM server backup data as well as the primary d...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE linux guest file level restore (without using windows for mounting)

We would like to restore files (file level) for Linux virtual machine whout using windows server for iSCSI mounting. Since we do not have any windows servers/guests in our environment.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

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