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Monitoring agent doesn't have cluster configuration support.

Usually, TSM is installed into cluster configuration. But monitoring agent doesn't support it. All of standart Tivoli Monitoring agents have this opportunity, but not SK agent.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

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...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

ARP Request for SVC at Daimler

ARP Request for SVC at Daimler. With this new feature we will be able to ensure high-availability and product stability in Daimler's Storage environment.
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 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...
about 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.
about 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...
about 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...
about 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...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

volume going offline

We feel that a lun going offline should be an error, so we can easily get paged on it. right now a space efficent volume going off line when full should be a error not a warn error codes 060001 to 060006
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 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...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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