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enhancement of query session command

Add a new option for query session command with wild card to make it user friendly.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Add capability in the dsmadmc shell for command completion.

The CLI is currently the best way of managing TSM – but it is basic by today's standards. If we have to run TSM from the CLI, then the ‘shell' should offer things like ‘tab completion' of commands, filter capability (INC/EXCL on command output), t...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Enhance TSM Admin schedules so that system commands can be ran

Currently, the only way to make TSM execute system commands is via client schedules or the define client action command.I propose that the same functionality that exists in the client schedules is added to the admin schedules so that system comman...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Enhance query content command

Please make the output of the query contents command ready for loading into Excel. Add or change fields, specifically - 1. Add the volume name as the first field. 2. change the stored size value to just the decimal number, don't convert it to a fo...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Include command (eg incremental) on query session f=d

The output of query session f=d does not include the command (incremental, restore, archive, etc.) Add the command to the output.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Add silent install for HSM for Windows with no reboot

The msiexec should allow for a silent install without reboot for HSM for Windows as it does for the TSM Client. The desire is to automatically install using Tivoli Configuration Manager with no reboot. The reboot would be done later before the HSM...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / HSM for Windows 2 Not under consideration

Provide the ability to perform dynamic updates to cloptset

Provide the ability to perform updates to cloptset (dynamic value changes, instead of adding new them, and deleting the old entry).
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Scripting : Add a "FOR" construct

Add a FOR loop construct similar to UNIX/Windows scripting
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM Scalability with NFS/NDMP

We have experienced significant scalability challenges with our TSM client backing up NFS filesystems when exceeding around 20M files and with NDMP backups starting around 60M files (unless the backup server is essentially dedicated, which is not ...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Copy Stgpool enhancements

Need more options TSM copy pools.1. Command to list-tapes not copied.-Percentage of data not copied.-Number of files not copied.-Number of copies available 2. Option to promote Copypool as primary pool in case of DR and resync and revert to primar...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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