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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...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Multiple journal based services on AIX

We would like to have multiple journal based services on AIX. As far as we know, actually this is just implemented on Windows systems but we would like to have it on our AIX and Linux systems.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Image backup of Oracle ASM

Customer is interested in doing raw backup of Oracle ASM disk. Currenty is only supported via TDP For Databases or via FlashCopy Manager. This is only valid like logical backup but our customer wants to know if it is possible to save the volumes w...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

support larger blocksizes for virtual volumes

AUDIT VOLUME and RESTORE VOLUME performancefor virtual volumes (VV) is much lower than write performancefor VV. The difference of performance is measured not in percentor tens of percent but in factors like tens. For example fromPMR48910,077 we ge...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Segregation of roles within the system administrator class to separate Backup Admin tasks from User Admin tasks

I Have found a previous rejected RFE similar to our request below http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=15387 However this was a fairly simple request for RBAC within TSM. What Deutsche Bank require is slightly m...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Copy_Only backup (Single Ingest)

The requirement is to avoid multiple client backups of the same data, but allow image copy with different retention policies. In discussions with customer it has been suggested Dave Canan be involved in the technical design spec. Topics such as co...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

TSM support backup for Oracle Linux server release 6.1 (OEL)?

Does TSM support backup for Oracle Linux server release 6.1 (OEL)? Is this OS (Oracle Linux server release 6.1 (OEL)) is supported for TSM Extended edition and TSM DB agents? Does TSM support for Oracle apps?
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM support backup for Oracle Linux server release 6.1 (OEL)?

Does TSM support backup for Oracle Linux server release 6.1 (OEL)? Is this OS (Oracle Linux server release 6.1 (OEL)) is supported for TSM Extended edition and TSM DB agents? Does TSM support for Oracle apps?
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Direct Backup to BOOST/OST enabled VTL

We would like to see Data Domain BOOST support in TSM. We are using Data Domain HW today but I think there would be same/similar advantage using this technology with for example IBM ProtecTier/OST? Competition (Symantec, Networker) have allready i...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Cancel TSM Admin Schedules/Scripts

Introducing the ability to cancel an administrative schedule or a script rather than having to manually cancel all of the processes a schedule/script might create. For this to work, would most likely need the introduction of a script/schedule id t...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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