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Change behavior of include/exclude force=no processing

The current behavior is for server include-exclude statements to be placed at the bottom of the include-exclude list. Thus they are evaluated before the include-exclude statements specified in the client options file. The requirement is to change ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Command to dismount all volumes

Command to dismount all volumes. There are update or audit tasks that require the library be idle.� A mounted tape in IDLE status does not make the library idle.� It can be very tedious to execute several dismount volume commands.� Additionally th...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Get all ANR messages into Activity Log

Has to do with ANR messages that do not appear in the Activity Log. It may be an issue where the messages are generated before the Activity Log is started. None the less, they should be captured and displayed in the Activity Log. The messages have...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TDP agents should update the �last backed up� field for filespaces

TDP agents should update the �last backed up� field for their equivalent of a filespace when performing a backup of their data. Would enable customer to report which databases (or other objects equivalent to filespaces) have current backups and wh...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Client Redirection

The concept is that a TSM client would contact a TSM server and be told something akin to �you�re not registered here, but server xxxyyzzz at port 15##, has a client with that name. Go try logging in there.� It would simplify tremendously many of ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Support for installing TSM Administration Center on Tivoli Integrated Portal 2.2

We would like to be able to install TSM Administration Center 6.2, 6.3, 6.x on Tivoli Integrated Portal 2.2. ILMT is currently installed on TIP 2.2 and we would like to only have one TIP instance. Now we are forced to use 2 TIP instances. - 1 TIP ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

NAS restore have no replace no option

NAS/NDMP restore does not offer "replace=no/yes" option. This is an importantoption. User can easily override real live data with any old version.TSM data protection feature can be can be very easily turn to data destruction. I think this change i...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Extend Lock Node Capability (Lock Backup/Archive and Lock Restore/Retrieve)

Currently, Lock Node command in TSM Server can prevent a node from accesssing the server (cannot backup / archive and restore / retrieve). We want to be able to lock a node from restore/retrieve only, to prevent accidental deletion of important fi...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Tape end of life managed by TSM

We need to know the end of life for each tape managed by tsm in order to be able to replace a tape before coming unusable.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TDPsql SQL Server Backup Verification Functionality

The ability to run a verification of the backup image. This ability is available using standard (transact) sql command line: Verifies the backup but does not restore it, and checks to see that the backup set is complete and the entire backup is re...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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