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Segregation of roles within the system administrator class to separate Backup Admin tasks from User Admin tasks

I Have found a previous rejected RFE similar to our request below http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=15387 However this was a fairly simple request for RBAC within TSM. What Deutsche Bank require is slightly m...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Doc to install Agent ITM for TSM server to HACMP

We want to install the agent ITm TSM server on HACMP cluster.We find no documentation on the product. This is very urgent
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

TSM support of NAS environment variable thru NDMP (EMC)

Customer Natixis (large Bank) is using TSM as their enterprise backup solution. They are also using Celerra NAS from EMC and use migration/HSM features of those devices between different CIFS network shares to lower the price of the hardware. For ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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

Metadata only replication

Metadata only replication should allow user to replicate either File volumes via the SAN stack or Virtual Tape via a VTL device. This would make a VTL device more attractive and financially viable solution.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Legal Hold Requirement

Long term data retention and legal hold requirement is to provide the ability to reclassify/re-use existing backups without the need to change management classes, or multiple backups of data (see also RFE 29528). Customer expressed the desire to u...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Node Replication "always on" (automatically start replication after backup completion)

Node Replication "always on" (automatically start replication after backup completion) - Customer is writes their own automation scripts but would like to see this natively in the TSM product.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Cross platform migration (Solaris/AIX to linux)

X platform migration from Solaris/AIX to linux Primarily looking at being able to go from Unix/Linux to another Unix/Linux platform initially at the TSM 6.x version. There is also interested in migrating from Windows to Linux.Migrations would be e...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Planned for future release

Copy_Only backup (Single Ingest)

The requirement is to avoid multiple client backups of the same data, but allow image copy with different retention policies. In discussions with customer it has been suggested Dave Canan be involved in the technical design spec. Topics such as co...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration