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TSM on Hyper-V Support of Attached Physical Tape Library

For the TSM Server running on Microsoft Hyper-V, there is the following URL: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21239546 Please advise if the TSM development team and/or the tape library driver development team is having and/or will ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Metadata only replication

Metadata only replication should allow user to replicate either File volumes via the SAN stack or Virtual Tape via a VTL device. This would make a VTL device more attractive and financially viable solution.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Legal Hold Requirement

Long term data retention and legal hold requirement is to provide the ability to reclassify/re-use existing backups without the need to change management classes, or multiple backups of data (see also RFE 29528). Customer expressed the desire to u...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Node Replication "always on" (automatically start replication after backup completion)

Node Replication "always on" (automatically start replication after backup completion) - Customer is writes their own automation scripts but would like to see this natively in the TSM product.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Add 2 additional fields to a node for permitting or not permitting the ability to perform backups or archives

Add 2 additional fields to a node for permitting or not permitting the ability to perform backups or archives. There are cases where I would like to disable the ability to perform an archive on a node basis. If I want to do that there is no reason...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Increase the granularly of administrator permissions

Increase the granularly of administrator permissions. This goes with other future enhancements to TSM, specifically the ability to push client upgrades from the TSM server. Or grant permission to perform a restore or backup from Admin Center (I su...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Command to dismount all volumes

Command to dismount all volumes. There are update or audit tasks that require the library be idle.� A mounted tape in IDLE status does not make the library idle.� It can be very tedious to execute several dismount volume commands.� Additionally th...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Specify an output file for stand-alone dsmserv commands

Specify an output file for stand-alone dsmserv commands such as the dsmserv restore db command so that the output can be saved for review later. Currently can�t do this, not even with the redirection character �>�.� Documentation is always a go...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Execute DB2 commands and send output sent to activity log

Be able to execute DB2 commands from dsmadmc sessions and have output sent to activity log. There is useful information about the DB2 database that can�t be displayed with existing query commands.� Either build additional query commands or provide...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TDP agents should update the �last backed up� field for filespaces

TDP agents should update the �last backed up� field for their equivalent of a filespace when performing a backup of their data. Would enable customer to report which databases (or other objects equivalent to filespaces) have current backups and wh...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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