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Exch. TDP restore -progress bar not displayed

Restore of Exchange database using Tivoli Storage Management software no longer shows the status or progress bar until completion of the restore, or part of the restore. For example, if we restore from full and incremental backup, the status will ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TWS support for IBM i operating system version V7R3M0

According with information in IBM site, there aren't any supported versions of TWS agent for IBM i V7R3M0.Latest supported version is TWS 9.2 but only supported in IBM i V7R1M0 and V7R2M0.Meanwhile V7R1M0 end-of-support was announced to 30/04/2018...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Subscribe to profiles from more than one configuration manager

As of now it's only possible to define subscriptions from one configuration manager. It would be good to be able to do it from multiple configuration managers at the same time, which would make at least our environment more standardized for some s...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TSM cannot handle the backing up chroot Linux files natively

TSM not backing up:[root@lppdns01v ~]# ll -d /u01/chroot/etc/nameddrwxr-x--- 2 root named 4096 Jun 9 2014 /u01/chroot/etc/named[root@lppdns01v ~]# ll -d /u01/chroot/usr/lib64/binddrwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 9 2014 /u01/chroot/usr/lib64/bind[ro...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Update to TSMJBB daemon

We have been having AIX lpars with busy filesystems, 'lock up' with the tsmjbbd daemon running. It would be better if the tsmjbbd could issue some sort of warning instead of locking up the server. The PMR that caused this request was 82029.082.000...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Packet data curruption between Tivoli client API and Tivoli server.

Customer is using external network between client machine and Tivoli storage server. These is data corruption between Tivoli client API (dsmSendData) and Tivoli server and client API is not indicating any data corruption. Due to this database reco...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Allow ndmp backups to stack in versions 6.3 and later

Prior to v6.3 we had the functionality to stack backup processes when running ndmp backups. Rather than create extra scripts externally to limit them to 4 we require the functionality to be returned.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Cumulative clientopt definition

Background: Today when we use clientopt on the server side the number of clientopt can grow quite large, the number may grow in to 50-100 clientopts over time if the Spectrum Protect Solution uses a central configuration manager. This may be possi...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM Linux Client 6.4.X web interface with Java Version 8

The Linux web client is not working with Java 8x. Please resolve
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Web Client GUI and

Please make TSM Web Client GUI compatible with Java 8 security requirements
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration