IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    TSM USB Gen 6 DDS Drive Support

    Hi there, Please find the scenario of the following:TSM 6.3.4IBM gen 6 USB dds tape drive That's for your confirmation of whether the DDS tape drive in question is supported by TSM 6.3.4 as we cannot identify the tsm name type with tsmdlst.exe in ...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

    incremantal backup via NDMP

    Since TSM's limitation of doing NDMP backup of filer as full+differential. So if its having feature of adding incremental as one option, so we don't need to waste space by having differential backup as its become so large at one point until u do f...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

    syslog receiver for linux

    Feature to allow TSM to externalise events through a reciver that can put events into syslog without the need for external scripting.
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

    Add TSM linux client to use syslog to log errors

    TSM Linux b/a client is not able to write error logs to syslog facilities.
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Allow snapdiff backups of NetApp CIFS volumes containing widelinks

    TSM uses NetUseEnum() to determine if a NetApp CIFS share is connected before attempting a snapdiff backup. When run on a NetApp CIFS volume with widelinks, it results in the following error: ANS2831E: Incremental by snapshot difference cannot be ...
    over 12 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 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Display a warning when Win 2008 System State files are skipped

    On a Windows 2008 server, when you backup a directory containing a file that Windows identifies as part of the System State, TSM will quietly skip the file. Would like to see an information or warning message (possibly also a return code 4) to ind...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 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.
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Admin client batch option

    A new command line option that signals this is a "batch" execution, not interactive. Specifically, if in batch mode, an expired admin password should cause a program exit with an error indication, not a prompt for a new password.
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

    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...
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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