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SCOM Management Pack for Spectrum Protect, Sectrum Protect Plus.

A management pack for the management of Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus in System Center Operation Manager.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Allow snapdiff backups of NetApp CIFS volumes containing widelinks

TSM uses NetUseEnum() to determine if a NetApp CIFS share is connected before attempting a snapdiff backup. When run on a NetApp CIFS volume with widelinks, it results in the following error: ANS2831E: Incremental by snapshot difference cannot be ...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

BackupSet tape Migration

We have backupsets created on 3592-JB tapes and we need to migrate these backupsets to 3592-JD tapes.We are in the process of discarding all JB tapes and TS1130 tape drive.We will have only TS1160 tape drives which can not read JB tapes.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Operations Center - Management class - Custom retention time

When defining a management class from the Operations Center, there are only predefined values for the Backups, Keep Extra backups etc.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

'dsmc i' should never re-backup restored-unchanged files

'dsmc i' should never re-backup restored-unchanged files
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Dissimilar policies for node replication

When using node replication, it would be helpful to be able to specify dissimilar policies for local copies and remote copies.It should be easy to configure and maintain - also in large TSM environments, where ConfigMaster is being used for distri...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Node replication to multiple target servers

I thought this feature would be available in TSM server 7.1 but the following indicates otherwise. http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v7r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsm.srv.doc%2Fr_repl_restrictions.html Replication server configurationsA...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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

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

Node Replication available for NDMP storage pools

Is it in the roadmap to include storage pools with format=NETAPPDUMP, CELERRADUMP or NDMPDUMP in Node Replication ?
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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