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Storage Protect Family

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Add a warning note to the "AUDIT VOLUME" TSM help page

The help page of the "AUDIT VOLUME" command should include a warning like: "Use the FIX=Yes option ONLY if you are absolutely sure that your tapedrive and SAN infrastructure are perfectly healthy. Make sure also that tape heads are clean and that ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Cross Mount Points in baclient without having to use domain statements in dsm.opt

Ability to cross Mount Points when setting up a BAClient without being forced to update the dsm.opt file everytime one is created.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Scratch volume selection for SCSI type libraries

1. When a tape is checked out, then checked back in, the mount count should not be reset. The count should only be set to zero when a new tape is labeled into the library or forced to zero by options. 2. Add an option to the check in command to fo...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

6.3 upgrade process stops because it sees 'dsmserv' string in any running processes

Any processes containing ‘dsmserv' string in its display name or path can cause the installer to think that the server is running, even the processes have nothing to do with TSM. I think this should not happen and needs to be changed.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

TCPWINDOWSIZE affecting both, send and receive size

Tivoli *.opt parameter TCPWINDOWSIZE option specifies the amount of receive data and send data in kilobytes that can be on a TCP/IP connection at one time. It would be helpful to have two different values, one for send-buffer (TCPSENDBUFFERSIZE) a...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE enhancements

1) Need ability to restore just one drive from the TSM for VE gui on the backup proxy server.2) Ability enhanced for the Data Protection for VMware Recovery Agent to restore to a different drive letter or mountpoint than the original.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

Increasing TSM blocksize

With a bigger blocksize in TSM server than 256k or make it variable.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM implemented under DB2 PureScale

TSM Server could increase the avaiability using DB2 PureScale. We can connect several servers to same DB2 DB. And we can use GPFS to create a FileStorage Pool. Another advantage is to dedicate one additional server to do node replication against o...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM AUDIT VOLUME command with the FIX=NO subcommand be enhanced to support the drive SCSI VERIFY command

That the TSM AUDIT VOLUME command with the FIX=NO subcommand be enhanced to support the drive SCSI VERIFY command, that unique messaging be provided on the command output to: a) indicate that it completed with no errors; b) if there were errors, S...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add Line of failure for command schedules

I would like to see particularly which line of a TSM script failed when running. Currently I believe Query EVent would only tell me that my administration script failed. It would be good if it showed as Failed (ln32) then I could look into my scri...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

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