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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...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

upd schedule deletes entries in event table

I want TSM NOT to delete the event history when an "update schedule" is made.this can interfere with operational reporting or whatever tool you use/have build to send succesful/failed/missed mails to customers. please give a least a parameter to s...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

dsmc hang when NFS hard mount is fail

i want that the dsmc or dsmc sched dont hang on a failed NFS Mount.Ther should be a timout and than go on with backup.ther can be a message in errorlog.But i dont want to hang the dsmc
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM copy group parameters serialization and changedretries not honored with file is locked for read

When a file is being written to, TSM has the ability in some cases to do a fuzzy backup (serialization=dynamic). However there are exceptions if a file is locked for reading by the OS. Then TSM obviously can not get to it which is fine, but.... th...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Tivoli Monitoring for TSM

We have ITM6 monitoring agent for TSM installed on TSM server to test TSM monitoring scenario but agent have not much features as per the customer requirements, and we need help to get those features, view with this agent. I had open PMR 13425, L6...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Eliminate the possibility of unintentionally deleting data (SYS4039)

Eliminate the possibility of unintentionally deleting data
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Not under consideration

TSM Scheduler Update (SYS4331)

The Best Practice for TSM server environments is to include Full backups on a periodic basis. With the efficiency of the incremental Forever strategy of TSM, there comes a side effect that can become a road block to achieving a timely RTO. This is...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

In PMR-43180,7TD,000 Steve Huber has requested that we submit an RFE to permit DFDSS COPYDUMP to reblock dump data.

In PMR-43180,7TD,000 Steve Huber has requested that we submit an RFE to permit DFDSS COPYDUMP to reblock dump data. Is this something you can assist with? PMR-43180In addition, I was speaking to Tim this morning regarding the limitation of the DFD...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Rotate TSM Error Log

TSM Client on Windows is not rorating Error Log and Log file size keep growing unless we restart TSM Service. This is causing diskspace issues at our End since we have only 5GB volume for TSM Error logs. There is no issue with Backup log they are ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM ITM Agent - Activity log situations only displayed for 5mn

I'm using the TSM ITM Agent and I'm trying to configure a situation from Activity log entries.<br />These situations only appear 5mn in my TEP console before being automaticaly closed. These situations are "sampled", they should be "pure" an...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

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