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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 ...
about 10 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...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

TSM on Hyper-V Support of Attached Physical Tape Library

For the TSM Server running on Microsoft Hyper-V, there is the following URL: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21239546 Please advise if the TSM development team and/or the tape library driver development team is having and/or will ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Metadata only replication

Metadata only replication should allow user to replicate either File volumes via the SAN stack or Virtual Tape via a VTL device. This would make a VTL device more attractive and financially viable solution.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Legal Hold Requirement

Long term data retention and legal hold requirement is to provide the ability to reclassify/re-use existing backups without the need to change management classes, or multiple backups of data (see also RFE 29528). Customer expressed the desire to u...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Node Replication "always on" (automatically start replication after backup completion)

Node Replication "always on" (automatically start replication after backup completion) - Customer is writes their own automation scripts but would like to see this natively in the TSM product.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 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

Add 'Are You Sure' to TDP GUI closeout

If the user closes the GUI, need a prompt to the user asking 'are you sure you want to close, you have processes running' if there's a process running such as a restore. This would help prevent accidental cancellation of a process, which occurred ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Data on client option and feature exploitation

There have been over the years a large number of TSM client options and enhancements whose use is not easily recognized by a TSM server. For example, if a Windows TSM client is using journal-based backups, that�s not obvious to TSM server administ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Execute DB2 commands and send output sent to activity log

Be able to execute DB2 commands from dsmadmc sessions and have output sent to activity log. There is useful information about the DB2 database that can�t be displayed with existing query commands.� Either build additional query commands or provide...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration