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Archive function

An ability to run archive on the TSM server side insted of from the clientsid where you have the competition with normal backup windows.When the archive is on diskpool, dedup can be used.generate backupset is to devclass that can't be deduped.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

TSM Consolidate Command (SYS4645)

A TSM "Consolidate" command will do something similar to move nodedata, but thresholds can be set based on a node's level of tape fragmentation. Just as it's seamless that migration or reclamation starts automatically when disk and tapes reach a c...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Cancel all processes of a given type by name

Enhance the cancel command to be able to cancel all processes of a given type by name.� For example, a �cancel migrations� or a �cancel reclamations� command should cancel those types of processes if they are running without executing a cancel pro...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Further develop the storage pool migration mechanism

Develop the storage migration mechanism (both the MIGRATE STG command and automatically initiated equivalents) to either move data at a more granular level than node ownership, or develop it to support multiple processes per whatever level of gran...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

upd schedule deletes entries in event table

I want TSM NOT to delete the event history when an "update schedule" is made.this can interfere with operational reporting or whatever tool you use/have build to send succesful/failed/missed mails to customers. please give a least a parameter to s...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

dsmc hang when NFS hard mount is fail

i want that the dsmc or dsmc sched dont hang on a failed NFS Mount.Ther should be a timout and than go on with backup.ther can be a message in errorlog.But i dont want to hang the dsmc
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM copy group parameters serialization and changedretries not honored with file is locked for read

When a file is being written to, TSM has the ability in some cases to do a fuzzy backup (serialization=dynamic). However there are exceptions if a file is locked for reading by the OS. Then TSM obviously can not get to it which is fine, but.... th...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Tivoli Monitoring for TSM

We have ITM6 monitoring agent for TSM installed on TSM server to test TSM monitoring scenario but agent have not much features as per the customer requirements, and we need help to get those features, view with this agent. I had open PMR 13425, L6...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Eliminate the possibility of unintentionally deleting data (SYS4039)

Eliminate the possibility of unintentionally deleting data
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Not under consideration

TSM Scheduler Update (SYS4331)

The Best Practice for TSM server environments is to include Full backups on a periodic basis. With the efficiency of the incremental Forever strategy of TSM, there comes a side effect that can become a road block to achieving a timely RTO. This is...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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