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Storage Protect Family

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schedlogretention option is only applied at process startup

It is not recommended to restart the dsmcad process on a regular basis.We use the schedlogretention option is required to allow archiving of the dsmsched.log files, but this means that the dsmwebcl.log files continue growing for the life of the ds...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

During TSM Upgrade to 7.1 you get a message that says "java.io.IOException: There is not enough space in the file system."

Even thou, there are requirements for /var, /tmp. During the TSM 7.1 server upgrade, if space is needed in /tmp, the install logs will say "/tmp" or say it at the screen. As for files that need to be backed up under /opt/IBM/IBMIMShared/native/com...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

AD for reading passwords, but modifing AD

From TSM server using AD only for reading passwords without modifing the AD database. When TSM administrator login to the TSM commandline dsmserv, the password should be verified in an AD database.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM 7.1.1 Server has no db2diag.log error messages for TSM server database backup

After upgrade of AIX 6.1 TSM 6.3.4 server to TSM 7.1.1, we noticed error messages in db2diag.log from PMR 18439,057,649 and technote http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21688785..This request is for TSM 7.1.1 or later release to not h...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Correct reporting of unsupported OSes

I have been advised to submit an RfE following on from PMR 45729,001,866. We have noticed that TSM does not reliably report the OS level of unsupported OSes. As far as we are concerned, it used to do so: for example, when Mac OS X 10.9 was release...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Is a defect

Copy node function

The create the copy of exact node I use always rename node , export and import than rename the original node . This causes to much hassel if there are several nodes and load on the tsm server . Creating copy of node is critical if there is a multi...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE

after a backup occurs in VE the Vm goes into a hanging state and locks the VM, only once the server is restarted then the problem goes away. when the backup methodology is changed to TDP for VMware, file and SOL then the issues goes away and the s...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

enhancement request for TransErrno messages

This applies to Unix clients (AIX, Linux, Solaris). Please enhance the TransErrno error messages to include the full pathname of the ofeending filesystem entry. This would aid in analysing the errors message like these that often follow the TransE...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Tsm4ve in vcloud mode can only use wild card to select, not de-select

With TSM4VE backing up a vsphere cluster, it is easy with a -vm option, and wildcards to exclude vm's from backing up. When pointing to a Vcloud Director, and backing up vapps, you can include vapps with wildcards, but not exclude them. Every VAPP...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Long Startuptime with big Diskpool

Our TSM 6.3.5 Server with 22TB Data in a Diskpool and 200GB Database needs over 90min to start. The developers say, this is because of following Reason: "In our V5 data base we had these things called bitvector objects which kept track of free spa...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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