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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.
about 11 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 ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

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over 11 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 11 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.
over 11 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.
over 11 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...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Simultaneous backup to primary and copypool using lanfree.

Simultaneous backup to primary and copypool using lanfree. Our customer is interesting in doing simultaneous backup to primary and copy storage pool.
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

Support Windows 2012 Deduplication

Support for the Windows 2012 Data Deduplication feature. This can save a lot of disk space on the server but the backup and restore leaves the files unreadable.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Is a defect

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