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Storage Protect Family

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Clength limit of each option is 1790 characters

Customer needs to use the command line for some restores and faces the error bellow: Failed - Error: RC: 1924 ACO6205E The tdpsqlc command that was entered exceeds the maximum length limit.The length limit of each option is 1790 characters.exists
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Client can get info about nodes he has no access being granted to

Issuing a "q fi -fromnode=xyz" from the dsmc command line, lists all filespaces from ANY node that is defined in the tsm servers poliy domain. This should only work for those nodes, the requesting node has been granted access to.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Protect Agent Support for Db2 Warehouse/MPP on Scale

For a "role your own" Db2 MPP/Warehouse the Protect client agent is currently not supported or tested. This is available in the Netezza format (appliance). The solution proposal will need this capability. Need support for the client agent within a...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

TDP should backup passsive DBs with the highest activation preferences

On Exchange 2013 cluster multi-node systems are give an active and morg than one passive database like in our environment. We deceided to backup the passive database with the highest activation perference. This is only possible via powershell scri...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

Estimation method for TSM DB archive log size in case of DB2 reorg

I asked TSM support center in Japan (STSC) about the method how to estimate TSM DB archive log size in case of DB2 auto reorg. However, support center replied there is no method.if this is actual situation, customer cannot estimate a size of files...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Autodeploy over SSL

Enable autodeploy over an SSL connection. Currently, autodeploy fails if a TSM client is configured to use SSL. As SSL communications become more common/required, autodeploy over SSL should be available.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Exclude C:\swapfile.sys by default in Windows

In Windows, "q inclexl" tells me that C:\hiberfil.sys and C:\pagefile.sys are excluded by the operating system. In Windows 8/8.1 (and possibly also 2012), there is a new extra paging file, C:\swapfile.sys, usually of about 256MB in size. I'd like ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Allow TSM for VE VMCLI to report VM deleted status

Enhance the VMCLI command to return the status of VMs deleted. Currently only the TSM for VE UI can generate the list of VM backups where the original VM has been removed from the VMware environment and therefore is in a 'deleted' state. While UI ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM Server under Linux leaves LTO tapes in encrypted mode after use

TSM server under Linux, when using standalone LTO-6 tape drives will leave a drive loaded with an encryption key and enabled for encryption after a TSM backup stgpool command where the device class uses encryption mode 'ON'. After the backup is co...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

configure TMPDIR for TSM scheduler (dscmcad)

The TSM scheduler uses /tmp or /var/tmp as the TMPDIR for its temporary files. This appears to be hardcoded depending on the version of Unix being used.We are seeing regular cases of schedules being missed because the hardcoded TMPDIR is full when...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration