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SNAPDIFF with QTREE Support

NDMP backup does not support qtree data structure. I have two customer who has about 20TB today and will grow to 40TB and would like to utilize this function.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

backup incremental for all the VSS writers

When we proceed to an systemstate backup, only the System Writer backup is incremental, the others VSS backup are Full (ex.: WDS). in that way, Tthe backup increase very fast.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

MOVE NODEDATA for volumes with access mode of offsite

This enhancement would result in the supported ability to move a client node's backup data, which is spread across many offsite tapes, onto fewer tapes, thereby resulting in fewer tapes to deal with during restore operations. These tapes have acce...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Need support X/Open API for Tivoli Storage Manager on Windows

Add support of XBSA (X/Open API) for Tivoli Storage Manager on Windows.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Need support X/Open API for Tivoli Storage Manager on Windows

Add support of XBSA (X/Open API) for Tivoli Storage Manager on Windows.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Canceling sessions by name

Running sessions can be cancelled only by session id. .Please add a funcionality to cancel all sessions from one node with a single command. Further: Please add a option to cancel all sessions and prevent reopening of sessions by a node. Thank you...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Archive function

An ability to run archive on the TSM server side insted of from the clientsid where you have the competition with normal backup windows.When the archive is on diskpool, dedup can be used.generate backupset is to devclass that can't be deduped.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

TSM Consolidate Command (SYS4645)

A TSM "Consolidate" command will do something similar to move nodedata, but thresholds can be set based on a node's level of tape fragmentation. Just as it's seamless that migration or reclamation starts automatically when disk and tapes reach a c...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Cancel all processes of a given type by name

Enhance the cancel command to be able to cancel all processes of a given type by name.� For example, a �cancel migrations� or a �cancel reclamations� command should cancel those types of processes if they are running without executing a cancel pro...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Further develop the storage pool migration mechanism

Develop the storage migration mechanism (both the MIGRATE STG command and automatically initiated equivalents) to either move data at a more granular level than node ownership, or develop it to support multiple processes per whatever level of gran...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration