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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 ...
over 10 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

TSM Login Banner

Security/Audit demands an authorised legal disclaimer is displayed and acknowledged before user access to IT systems, services or devices is granted
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 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...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration