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Apple is asking for DD Boost support with TSM.

Apple is asking for DD Boost support with TSM. DD Boost, formerly called Data Domain Boost Software, enables part of the deduplication effort to be offloaded to the backup client server. DD Boost is now integrated with EMC NetWorker as well as wit...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 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.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Dedup info command

A tool for information of the status of DedupQ DEDUPlike 'sh dedupdeleteinfo' witch is a undocumented one
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Planned for future release

Backup client for SAP HANA

There is a need to develop a real backup solution for SAP HANA. As it is today all backups are done on a full-backup base from files. Since the database can be quite large this is a problem.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Planned for future release

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...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Add 2 additional fields to a node for permitting or not permitting the ability to perform backups or archives

Add 2 additional fields to a node for permitting or not permitting the ability to perform backups or archives. There are cases where I would like to disable the ability to perform an archive on a node basis. If I want to do that there is no reason...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Delete DRM recovery plan files

The DRM recovery plan or DRM instruction plan files generated by the prepare command are not managed by TSM if the files are stored on the TSM server.� TSM should delete these files based on the DRMRPFEXPIREDAYS setting.� Automating the file delet...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Additional Client Administration Tasks

Add the ability to perform more client administration tasks like reading dsmerror.log or dsmsched.log files from the TSM server, or updating the dsm.opt or dsm.sys files. Grant appropriate administrator permissions, too. Business Reason: Add more ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Increase the granularly of administrator permissions

Increase the granularly of administrator permissions. This goes with other future enhancements to TSM, specifically the ability to push client upgrades from the TSM server. Or grant permission to perform a restore or backup from Admin Center (I su...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Further develop the storage pool migration mechanism

Develop the storage migration mechanism (both the MIGRATE STG command and automatically initiated equivalents) to either move data at a more granular level than node ownership, or develop it to support multiple processes per whatever level of gran...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration