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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

TSM - Individual Accountability (SYS5013)

Improve Userid security/ individual accountability in IBM Storage Devices
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Physical Tape Libraries and Drives (SYS4998)

Improve Userid security/ individual accountability in IBM Storage Devices
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM for MQ

Hi,We would like do MQ backups online with TSM.It is possible on next TSM releases? Thanks
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM Not Backing Up AD LDS Files

TSM doesn't seem to be backing up the primary files for the AD LDS (Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services) application installed on a couple of my servers. Please see the attached Word document for more details and screenshots. Client: O...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

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 ...
about 11 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.
about 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

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

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