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Storage Protect Family

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dsmicfgx recommend free space in active log

TSM configuration GUI should have a warning/reminder to allow enough free space in the active log filesystem.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Make SANDISCOVERY smarter in environments using persistent device naming

The SANDISCOVERY feature can update a device path from a persistently named device (/dev/lin_tape/by-id/lin_tape3) to a non-persistently named device (/dev/IBMtape3). For example: 08/09/2015 12:41:06 ANR8975I Found new path for DRIVE3 and target n...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM Support for Windows 2012 de-duplication

Request for support for TSM de-duplication in conjunction with Windows 2012 de-duplication. I'm seeing more customers asking if and when TSM is going to be supporting Windows 2012 native de-duplication. There is currently no support available, and...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Have TSM use specified source IP address on host with multiple IP addresses

For being able to better control traffic and firewall rules, it is desirable that the SERVERHLADDR will respect the defined setting when this host OS has multiple IP addresses - so that the source IP address of traffic initiated from the TSM insta...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM backup wildcard * on DOMAIN statement like DOMAIN /dir*

To be consistent with wildcard usage of "*" in TSM backup exclude/include syntax, this request is for the '*' to be provided as a wildcard for use in the DOMAIN statement, eg DOMAIN all-local -/dir/subdir*.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Storage size does not consider full values

The storage used is very misleading. For example if the remote storage is 7.62 GB, it shows as &GB. We need accurate numbers for checking the usage.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Workstations 1 Not under consideration

TSM for Linux on zSystems non linux formatted (image/Volumes) raw dump & restore

The customer DRV (German Retirement Funds) is in the process in deploying TSM on Linux on zSystems globally to replace competition and also as a replacement for some z/OS functions. For this purpose DRV need raw access for dump / restore for non L...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Backup algorithm needs to be changed to work OK for a chrooted environment

Customer expect that all files will to be backed up. This works under RHEL 6 buts makes trouble in a chrooted environment under RHEL 7. It seems that RedHat in RHEL 7 has changed the way they deal with a directory that is on one side part of the “...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

TSM for Space Management - dsmmigundelete

The User's guide for current release of TSM for Space Management (Unix) states: "You cannot use the dsmmigundelete command to re-create stub files for individual files or specific groups of files." In practice it is often necessary to restore indi...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 0 Not under consideration

Mounting & Dismounting of tapes while executing backup jobs in scripts and non functioning of overflow location.

We are executing multiple backup jobs under one script, while executing scripts we have observed that there are multiple mounting and dismounting of tapes occur due to which our backup window has increased. We are also facing issues for non functi...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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