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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...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Autodeploy over SSL

Enable autodeploy over an SSL connection. Currently, autodeploy fails if a TSM client is configured to use SSL. As SSL communications become more common/required, autodeploy over SSL should be available.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

ICO managed TSM activities

Centralized management of TSM activities through TSM server instead of direct connection from ICO to the End-Point. This would enable TSM Server acting as automation tool for backup related activitites such as triggering of backups , snapshots, re...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

VM vmdk multithread process - Enable the per VM multithread (process multiple vmdk from within a single backup job)

VM vmdk multithread process - Enable the per VM multithread (process multiple vmdk from within a single backup job)
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TSM 7.2 rebackup prevention

TSM 7.2 rebackup prevention - TSM should not backup files which were just restored (most recent version) by TSM, on next incremental.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to analyze all client options from TSM server regardless if it's in client option file or on server.

Possibility to analyze all client options from TSM server regardless if it's in client option file or on server.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM Operations Center Alert Summaries Interval Change

Allow for a change to the time interval for email alert summaries by email. Currently, alert summaries are sent approximately every hour. My request was to allow for daily summaries. In addition, the ability to modify the email alert summaries to ...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Enable TSM API to access/process TSM backup client contents

We are going to implement the API to automate the commands "query backup" and "restore" as a web service with unicode support. Unfortunately, this task can't be completed successfully, although we orient on the code that was provided with the SAMP...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

make CANCEL REPL end the replication process under any and all circumstances

delev245 = repltargetdelev245 is not responsible, but running. Ping server delev245 also hangs this situationwas caused by an unresponsive target linux host. ALL replsource servers have to be restarted. How to recover from a hanging "Cancelling re...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

This applies to Spectrum CDM: enchance GUI ergonomy

Client noticed that when defining a schedule for a Spectrum CDM job, there are no “Save” or “OK” buttons on the schedule configuration window (see document attached) and it is required to click outside the Window to save changes. This is considere...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

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