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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

MOVE NODEDATA for volumes with access mode of offsite

This enhancement would result in the supported ability to move a client node's backup data, which is spread across many offsite tapes, onto fewer tapes, thereby resulting in fewer tapes to deal with during restore operations. These tapes have acce...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Need support X/Open API for Tivoli Storage Manager on Windows

Add support of XBSA (X/Open API) for Tivoli Storage Manager on Windows.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Need support X/Open API for Tivoli Storage Manager on Windows

Add support of XBSA (X/Open API) for Tivoli Storage Manager on Windows.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

GUI Point in Time Restore for a large number of files fails to display all files that are recoverable.

Point in Time restore of a Windows TSM Client with unlimited number of versions for 30 days does not work if a server has a larger number of files, or hourly backups are run.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Is a defect

Add Line of failure for command schedules

I would like to see particularly which line of a TSM script failed when running. Currently I believe Query EVent would only tell me that my administration script failed. It would be good if it showed as Failed (ln32) then I could look into my scri...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

Canceling sessions by name

Running sessions can be cancelled only by session id. .Please add a funcionality to cancel all sessions from one node with a single command. Further: Please add a option to cancel all sessions and prevent reopening of sessions by a node. Thank you...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Archive function

An ability to run archive on the TSM server side insted of from the clientsid where you have the competition with normal backup windows.When the archive is on diskpool, dedup can be used.generate backupset is to devclass that can't be deduped.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

TSM Consolidate Command (SYS4645)

A TSM "Consolidate" command will do something similar to move nodedata, but thresholds can be set based on a node's level of tape fragmentation. Just as it's seamless that migration or reclamation starts automatically when disk and tapes reach a c...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Cancel all processes of a given type by name

Enhance the cancel command to be able to cancel all processes of a given type by name.� For example, a �cancel migrations� or a �cancel reclamations� command should cancel those types of processes if they are running without executing a cancel pro...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration