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Add 'Are You Sure' to TDP GUI closeout

If the user closes the GUI, need a prompt to the user asking 'are you sure you want to close, you have processes running' if there's a process running such as a restore. This would help prevent accidental cancellation of a process, which occurred ...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TDP agents should update capacity and percentages

Tivoli Data Protection agents should update (provide) a capacity of each filespace or equivalent and a percentage used or else a current size and mark it as 100% used. This would aid in TSM server capacity planning as well as helping TSM administr...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Data on client option and feature exploitation

There have been over the years a large number of TSM client options and enhancements whose use is not easily recognized by a TSM server. For example, if a Windows TSM client is using journal-based backups, that�s not obvious to TSM server administ...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Client Redirection

The concept is that a TSM client would contact a TSM server and be told something akin to �you�re not registered here, but server xxxyyzzz at port 15##, has a client with that name. Go try logging in there.� It would simplify tremendously many of ...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Return Messages to Console

In TSM 5.5.1 when customer issues F ADSMS01.APPL=cmd there is nothing in the external data queue to process. Prior to 5.5 customer used automation to respond to the command results on the external data queue. Customer needs the messages restored.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Change behavior of include/exclude force=no processing

The current behavior is for server include-exclude statements to be placed at the bottom of the include-exclude list. Thus they are evaluated before the include-exclude statements specified in the client options file. The requirement is to change ...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Get all ANR messages into Activity Log

Has to do with ANR messages that do not appear in the Activity Log. It may be an issue where the messages are generated before the Activity Log is started. None the less, they should be captured and displayed in the Activity Log. The messages have...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Support for installing TSM Administration Center on Tivoli Integrated Portal 2.2

We would like to be able to install TSM Administration Center 6.2, 6.3, 6.x on Tivoli Integrated Portal 2.2. ILMT is currently installed on TIP 2.2 and we would like to only have one TIP instance. Now we are forced to use 2 TIP instances. - 1 TIP ...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

NAS restore have no replace no option

NAS/NDMP restore does not offer "replace=no/yes" option. This is an importantoption. User can easily override real live data with any old version.TSM data protection feature can be can be very easily turn to data destruction. I think this change i...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Extend Lock Node Capability (Lock Backup/Archive and Lock Restore/Retrieve)

Currently, Lock Node command in TSM Server can prevent a node from accesssing the server (cannot backup / archive and restore / retrieve). We want to be able to lock a node from restore/retrieve only, to prevent accidental deletion of important fi...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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