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TSM Traceability (SYS4340)

End to end transaction auditability / traceability between SBCE+ BSS and OSS components. This involves ensuring that all BSS/OSS components support embedding a UUID for each transaction which can be used to traceback the full lifecycle of any requ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Moving a node to another domain should not remove it from the backup schedule automatically.

Logically the command to move the node to another domain should have failed until I removed the node from the current backup schedule as the domain is tied to the schedule. Or I would expect a message prompting to continue informing me that the no...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Is a defect

define clientaction - change of default values

The define clientaction command, if executed without any parameters, starts an incremental backup on all nodes in all domains. This is potential risk because the administrator can make a mistake and press enter key before entering any parameters. ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Not under consideration

Smarter Tape Usage in Storage Pools

My request is that TSM be coded to look for tapes already in use, with free space available before assigning another empty scratch tape to the storage pool. For example upon filling tape1 TSM would look in the primary storage pool for the next hig...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Change to TSM Client Code Deployment

Currently the TSM Client Deployment package is coded to check for 2GB of free space on the c:\ drive of a Windows client node. If it is not available the TSM client code will fail to install. The current auto-deployment package for 64bit Windows i...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Change to TSM Client Code Deployment

Currently the TSM Client Deployment package is coded to check for 2GB of free space on the c:\ drive of a Windows client node. If it is not available the TSM client code will fail to install. The current auto-deployment package for 64bit Windows i...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 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...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 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...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Eliminate the possibility of unintentionally deleting data (SYS4039)

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

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