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V7K disk upgrade fails when package missining

DRIVE ERROR WHILE UPDATING FIRMWARE DRIVE. AND APPLYDRIVESOFTWARE -ALL F AILS DUE TO MISSING FIRMWARE IN PACKAGE 20150619
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

If a job does not find any db PASSIVE to be backed up, IT SHOULD NOT FAIL !

If a job does not find any db PASSIVE to be backed up, IT SHOULD NOT FAIL !
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Is a defect

Support for restoring concurrent vg

There are some insignificant errors during OS restore with concurrent vg via NIM Resource Boot. “0516-1305 chvg: This command is not allowed while volume group sapbinvg is concurrent capable”“0516-1300 chpv: -h option is not allowed for hdisk3 bec...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Is a defect

Use a single GUID per machine in a TDPDOM WIN86 environment

Problem title GUID flapping (repeated ANR1639I messages) Environment: Product or Service: Data Protection for Domino Windows 7.1.W Component ID: 5698DPDAP VMware vSphere 5.5 U3 Windows 2008 R2 x64 Standard Edition Lotus Domino 8.5.2 FP4 x32 TSM se...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Is a defect

Set correct locale for dsmcad RC script on Ubuntu 14.04

The rc.dsmcad init script does not set the locale in all cases. Since dsmcad starts dsmc, this leads to encoding errors (ANS4042E) and several files not being backed up on SuSE and Ubuntu systems. For RedHat systems, the file /etc/init.d/functions...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

TSM for VE reporting unsuccessful backup

TSM for VE, version 7.1.2, that skips VM during backup of SRM VMs generates a SUCCESFUL=NO in the summary table
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Is a defect

EXPORT NODE PROCESSING ENHANCEMENTS

EXPORT NODE processing issues a FALSE success, when in fact invalid or non-existent FSID are specified in the EXPORT NODE command.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

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...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Is a defect

FCM with custom application won't work with files >50k

FCM don't work with custom applications and more than 50K Files. There is a wait time from 1h to endless. We need a parameter to skip scanning. It's described in IC81771 but not solved. Support said RFE is needed.
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Is a defect

TDP for SQL option limitation.

When initiating a full backup of all the databases, tdpsqlc.exe crashes with this error:ACO6205E The tdpsqlc command that was entered exceeds the maximum length limit. The length limit of each option is 1790 characters.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Is a defect

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