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TDPsql SQL Server Backup Verification Functionality

The ability to run a verification of the backup image. This ability is available using standard (transact) sql command line: Verifies the backup but does not restore it, and checks to see that the backup set is complete and the entire backup is re...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

dismount vol * state=idle

For maintenance on a physical or virtual library it is sometimes needed to unmounts all tapes from a library. To do this you have to set devc to mountl=0 and cancels all processes and backups on LIBCLs using this library. Afterwards all drives are...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

can se all (including Libsharing session from/to LibMGR)

After network errors you may have sessions between LIBMGR and LIBCL in a hanging state or waiting for Hours . You are not able to cancel these type of session with the “can se all” command. In large environments or with many hanging sessions you h...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

halt command should do a complete and clean halt by option

Currently the halt command stops all processes but does not unmounts mounted volumes. In an LIBCL LIBMG environment you cannot use the drives until some timeouts will recycle the drives or the use in not confirmed to LIBMG (ANR8925W Drive x in lib...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM Server version history

Sometimes it is necessary to known what time you did run which version on your TSM server. For example when you may affected by an APAR(IC71049) which should be fixed in the current version you are running, but you still have older volumes affecte...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Tape end of life managed by TSM

We need to know the end of life for each tape managed by tsm in order to be able to replace a tape before coming unusable.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

image backup for physical disk volume

One of big TSM customers is requesting to support image backup of raw in physical disk volume. The physical disk volume is pointed to /dev/hdisk in case of AIX and no drive letter/mount point in case of Windows.Today we only support image backup o...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

archive directory recursively and singular fully qualified file

I want to be able to archive a single fully qualified file and recurse a directory in the same archive command. eg I currently have to run two archives to get the behaviour I needarchive -desc=ZZZZZZZ.ZZZZZZZ -subdir=yes /foo/apple/archive -desc=Z...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Audit library checkl=barcode should be possible even if tapes are mounted

Audit library checklabel=barcode should be possible without dismounting all tape-drives.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Provide a server command to reassign ownership of a filespace

Provide a server function/command to move ownership of an existing filespace from one node to another. This need for this function occurs due to host server consolidation in a data center. When old fileservers are retired, it is not uncommon for t...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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