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Fast way to determine tape location of archive data

A fast way to determine what tapes contain archive data with a particular description. This could also be extended to which tape(s) conatina an archived/backed up file. The query we have to use to determine this information is excrutiatingly slow....
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

DSMCUTIL LIST data only output

Gathering a list of TSM related services currently requires a lot of parsing to get the data in a usable state for batch processing. The IBM provided dsmcutil.exe can get the data but it outputs with a bunch of other "stuff" that requires a lot of...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

A script to invoke a Fastback backup on an Exchange 2010 DAG that selects only passive database copies

We would like an option, when backing up databases in an Exchange 2010 DAG, to ignore active databases and just back up passive copies.Ideally, we also need a method to detect recently running/completed backups on other passive copies on different...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Microsoft Exchange 2 Not under consideration

Admin API

Please document and open the admin api to the server. There seems to be an API which is used eg. by Tivoli Integrated Portal as I can see XML in tcpdumps. Maybe you still use something like SOAP. So providing an WSDL and/or Interfaces to .NET and ...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Not reuse the same password

TSM Controls does guarantee that the password expire every 90 days, however, it does not have a way to guarantee that the password that is being used is different than the previous one. To avoid findings uncovered in the area of TSM compliance, I ...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

need a method to have rc.acs_ssi startup/shutdown put into the rcn.d dirs for Linux like TSM 6 install does ro start/stop TSM

In our Linux environment things are killed and started in the /etc/rcn,d scripts where n is the run level. Here are the directories: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 25 16:30 rc0.d -> rc.d/rc0.dlrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 25 16:30 rc1.d -> rc...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

DBMEMPERCENT Parameter do not allow value smaller 10

Parameter DBMEMPERCENT do not allow value smaller than 10. On a AIX System with a lot of Memory are 10% as minimum for DBMEMPERCENT for small TSM Instances too many.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

retain ndmp diff separate from full

To be able to retain the differential NDMP dumps for a shorter period of time than the full backups and optionally to retain some full NDMP dumps for longer periods of time than others
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Request to add all future publications information for TSM journaling and to add sample config files for tsmdbbd.ini/dsm.opt

I've searched for detailed note on how to implement TSM journaling for multiple journals in a cluster but i have seen only one tech note in IBM forum and not all information about future publications added to that. I would really help TSM engineer...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TSM awareness on the health of DB2

We experienced an event whereby, due to some hardware error, a DB2 proces db2sync, was killed by the OS. This event was recorded in the db2diag.log and in the /var/adsm/messages file. There was no external evidence that this event occurred, that i...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

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