- Central logging and monitoring
- You can specify that event messages logged by the client and server be
directed to specified receivers.
See the following new commands for details:
- BEGIN EVENTLOGGING
- DISABLE EVENTS
- ENABLE EVENTS
- END EVENTLOGGING
- QUERY ENABLED
- QUERY EVENTRULES
The QUERY ACTLOG command provides more detailed information about event
messages logged by the client and server.
- SQL queries of the TSM database
- You can use SQL queries to get information about the server and
clients.
See the following new commands for details:
- QUERY SQLSESSION
- SELECT
- SET SQLDATETIMEFORMAT
- SET SQLDISPLAYMODE
- SET SQLMATHMODE
- Restartable Client Restore Sessions
- Clients can restart restore client sessions that have been
interrupted. Administrators can request information about these
sessions and cancel them.
See the following new commands for details:
- CANCEL RESTORE
- QUERY RESTORE
- Data stored on another TSM server
- You can store data for one TSM server (a source server) on another TSM
server (a target server). Using another TSM server is especially useful
for storing backups of the TSM database and TSM storage pools.
See the following new commands for details:
- DEFINE SERVER
- DELETE SERVER
- QUERY SERVER
- UPDATE SERVER
See the following changed commands for details:
- DEFINE DEVCLASS
- UPDATE DEVCLASS
- Device support enhancements
- Device class types now include support for the IBM 3570 tape drives, DTF
drives, Generic Tape (which extends device support to all supported devices),
and two-sided 12-inch and 14-inch optical write-once read-many (WORM)
media. Also included is a device type of SERVER, which supports
server-to-server virtual volumes.
See the following changed commands for details:
- DEFINE DEVCLASS
- UPDATE DEVCLASS
You can now label and check tape volumes into an automated library.
See the LABEL LIBVOLUME command for details.
- Administrative client web interface
- You can access TSM server functions from any workstation with a web
browser that supports HTML 2.0 or higher. The workstation does
not need to have an administrative client installed. See the SET
WEBAUTHTIMEOUT command for details about setting the time interval for
reauthorization to the web session.
- Immediate processing of commands on a client
- You can use a TSM administrative command to run an operation immediately
on a client workstation. You can also set the number of days that the
operation is to remain active.
See the following new commands for details:
- DEFINE CLIENTACTION
- SET CLIENTACTDURATION
- Client options at the server
- You can define, update, or delete client options at the server from the
server console or from an administrative client.
See the following new commands for details:
- COPY CLOPSET
- DEFINE CLIENTOPT
- DEFINE CLOPTSET
- DELETE CLIENTOPT
- DELETE CLOPTSET
- QUERY CLOPTSET
- UPDATE CLIENTOPT
- UPDATE CLOPTSET
You can specify which clients should use the option sets. See the
following commands for details:
- REGISTER NODE
- UPDATE NODE
- Server options enhancement
- You can change some server options and have the changes take effect
without stopping and starting the server. See the SETOPT command for
details.
- System configuration and capacity information
- You can obtain information regarding TSM's configuration and capacity
from a command that consolidates output from a multiple of query
commands. See the QUERY SYSTEM command for details.