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    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 12 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 12 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 12 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 12 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 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Is a defect

    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
    almost 13 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 ...
    almost 13 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.
    almost 13 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.
    almost 13 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...
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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