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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...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Query Event for NDMP Backup

We want to add a new entry in the database under Summary table called Filespace or BCK_Volume or similar, This failed should include the entry of what Volume on the NetApp that TSM was backed up and if it was OK or not.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Is a defect

VTS Physlib enhancement

For library maintenance operations, the TS7770T has to be put in Service Prep mode. Hence during all operations even planned ones, this cluster is unavailable.From ATS: unfortunately the Physlib is not designed for "planned outages". See the Host ...
over 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

Change dsmc selective to handle *, ?, doublequote, singlequote as nonmetacharacters

We want Linux GPFS mmbackup to backup all files that are legal in GPFS. Certain filenames currently cannot be backed up from mmbackup (RedHat Enterprise Linux5.6 (64bit), GPFS 3.3.0-14, TSM client 6.2.2.0, TSM server 6.1.2.1) because of the presen...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Planned for future release

authentication CLI supports overlapping IDs

The Samba 4.5.15 in Spectrum Scale 4.2.3.7 supports the overlapping IDsusing the following command: mmuserauth service create --data-access-method file --type ad --serversnam.domain.com --user-name AS --netbios-name <hostname>--unixmap-domai...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Keep transaction logs online as long as possible

The DB2 database has to allways retrieve all transaction logs from backup, even though the information might still be online.------------------------------------------------Here is an description how the backup is working today in DB2 The current ...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

TSM client scheduler improvements

TSM client scheduler (or some other client service) should be track if the last scheduled backup was successful and if not, there should be a way to configure the service to perform an action.E.g. the last schedule was missed, so the scheduler ser...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Data collector for Spectrum protect

I would like to know if ISA data collector is available for Spectrum protect product ( TSM ) ?
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Incorrect access permissions and ownership info when creating directories during restores

We know that there are two limitations in SP for Virtual Environment. We need to restore directories with the same access permissions and ownership information that they had during backup time. Directories that are created during a restore operati...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

request support for mssql on Linux RHEL for Spectrum Protect

ING request when MSSQL TDP will be available for Linux. Microsoft has ported MSSQL to Linux RHEL and SUSE.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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