TSM Admin's Corner: background information, tipps 'n' tricks

• Installation Quick Guide (main steps from the Installation Guide)
• nice to know a collection of useful information around TSM, Tape and so on
• TSM-Accounting some infos on build-in accounting
• Poster by IBM "TSM Basic Concepts"(covers TSM5.5, but still useful)

• Manpage on "dsmadmc"
• Starting the server in maintenance mode
• Starting the server in a screen (Linux only)
• not documented options on admin commands
• common Error codes
• using excludes mores sophisticated
• Client options that can be set by the Spectrum Protect server (SP-8.1.9)
• using multi-factor authentication (MFA) with TSM^H ISP

• some useful commands around fibre channel
• IBM's servermon tool -- link and remarks
• IBM's diskperf tool -- link and remarks
• a workaround for running more complex or external scripts

• Running SP8.1* on Ubuntu 18

In this section we start the documentation of the Spectrum Protect Operation at GWDG (as long as it's not confidental)

• Installation and configuration of SP servers
• Error: Approaches and solutions to cope with

Sometimes TSM/ISP does (yet) not provide functionality the admins deserve, so let's develop some workarounds

• 3 site replication

• ISP 7.1.7 Admin Command Reference
• ISP 7.1.7 Server Options
• ISP 7.1.6 Client Command Reference – Links towards Commands are below the commands short reference / overview!
  Once again, IBM has (so called) improved their web and many information have vanished :´-( . . . unfortunately even archive.org has no copy … :´´-(
  so let's hope they won't delete the old ones like this
  • TSM 7.1.2 Client Options Reference – Links towards Commands are below the commands short reference / overview!</del>
  • Once again, IBM has (so called) improved their web again and just changing the version does not lead to the new client options reference – but we expected this and so please take a look here:
    TSM 8.1.4 Client Options Reference
• ISP 7.1.6 Performance Tuning Guide
• IBM's License Information documents on "Spectrum+Protect"
• IBM Spectrum Protect Downloads - Latest Fix Packs and Interim Fixes
• Return Codes of TSM/ISP scripts

nothing by now

• TSM Poweradministrator : free version with limited functionality – by ISS Software Development & IT Services Ralf Affeldt
• TSM Script Editor : graphical Editor for TSM scripts – by Spirtit-Software
• Stuff about IBM Tivoli Storage Manager : sql (see below), scripts, … – by Thobias Salazar Trevisan at github
  • old html page
• Michael Malitz's Homepage : Link collection, some hints, trainings by MM-IT
• Richard B Sims TSM Aids besides the quick facts Richard provides a perl script for reading the dsmaccnt.log file on this page
  • Richard B Sims ADSM Quick Facts last updated 2013/10/04 – but still a wide pool of background information
• not to forget: Bruno Friess' newsletter on TSM and ISP. You need to apply for it info@exstor.com– by ExStor GmbH

• SQL for Tivoli Storage Manager : a collection of links around SQL for TSM / ISP by Thobias Salazar Trevisan
  • SQL for Tivoli Storage Manager : a collection of links around SQL for TSM / ISP by Thobias Salazar Trevisan Old Page!
• DB2 SQL knowledge center
• DB2 SQL Buildin functions
• GWDG SQL 4 TSM : some addition SQL statements
• a few things to know:
  • select with addtional text: SELECT || '<Text>' <COLUMN> || <'next Text>' FROM … and so on …

• DB2 offline Reorg
• DB initialization fails with Error 302

• a collection of some PS commands

These pages will describe the use and configuration of TLS 1.2 within a TSM/ISP server.

• Using Self signed Certificates
• Using DFN-CA signed Certificates – postponed

Every two years the “TSM-Symposium” (since 2019 it's called “ISP Symposium”) the largest TSM^H ISP user meeting outside the US takes place. The last Symposium took place in Dresden: http://isp2022.com/

• ISP/TSM-Version naming:
  • VRMF = Version.Release.Modification-Fix