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Possibility to throttle backup client resource utilization.

Possibility to throttle backup client resource utilization. Many times there are resource conflict for backups that are running “overtime”. The backup has been/is running until outside backup window. And the user, application owner want to cancel/...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

VM Quiescing

VM Quiescing
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

BA-Client for FreeBSD

Native tsm-client operatingsystem support for FreeBSD 10 (amd64) in order to the future of Linux with systemd.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Process AutoDeploy Linux without PING

Hi, The autodeploy of tsm client on Linux OS is using ping to compare the serveraddress from autodeploy process with serveraddress from config file (dsm.sys). As the ping is not authorized, the result of comparaison is false and the autodeploy pro...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

enhance TSM node replication for data of nodes of type Server

At the moment node replication can not be used for data stored for nodes of type server. To achieve a complete desaster protection based on stored TSM data there is also a need to replicate data of these nodes. We know that we need as well databas...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Liberty server should come back up automatically when TCPIP is restarted

If TCPIP is down and then is restarted, Liberty Server integrated into TPC-R should be able to reconnect to TCPIP without being restarted.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Exclude Objects from Systemstate Backup

User should be able to exclude files from backup even if they belong to the Systemstate.Missing Systemstate files should not create errormessages and/or returncodes when excluded by the user. User should be able to define a List of errors and warn...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM backup support for EMC Greenplum

EMC Greenplum is big data appliance and customer need it to protect with TSM. I don't see any function which talk about such backups. So I am looking for document or reference that TSM can backup Greenplum data.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

how to identify "local" nodes in "q n"

e need to list only "normal" nodes on a server that also acts as a replication target. "Q Node" shows all nodes, i could not find a parameter to filter for local nodes only. How can we list local nodes only, for example to check if these nodes are...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Delete selective export vol from volhist

Currently if i make mistake and create an export node with wrong domain, i need to delete node to turn the tape back to scratch. There is no way currently to selectively remove an bad export vol from a list of valid export nodes.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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