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Occupancy or Auditocc improvement

Is it possible to efficiently add the ability of TSM to record the current ACTIVE (post-backup of a node) data by either:1) Add the a process to update the AUDITOCC - BACKUP_ACTIVE_MB field.2) Add a field to OCCUPANCY table to record the current A...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Support needed on client side dedupliaction for NextStgPool when MaxSize is being used on first storage pool.

Support is needed for client deduplication not being disabled for the rest of the session, if an object from a client exceed the defined MaxSize on the first storage pool, and then is being backed up to the next storage pool (which might or might ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

TCP Window size - update default to 0 on platforms with auto tuning

Both the TSM server and TSM client has an option named TCPWINDOWSIZE that tunes the TCP window size.<br /><br />Most of us would expect that the default would be 0, ie go with the operating system default settings. This is not the case...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Delivered

TSM v6.x Files & Directories omit the the world writable bit for security reasons (SYS4956)

Files:/opt/tivoli/tsm/db2/_installPgms/Db2idrop.sh/opt/tivoli/tsm/db2/license/nodelock.db2 Directories:/tsminst1/ARC_log/archmeth1/tsminst1/ARC_logf/failarchWe would like confirmation from Tivoli TSM development that the permissions on these files...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Install Anywhere problem: Aborted installation cant be started again (HP/UX)

An Aborted installation can be started again, but wont finish correctly. this document does not help as well, as the scripts dont work without JAVA_HOME beeing set.http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21395154 Need working documentatio...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered
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Request for TSM to handle different retentions for Virtual Environments

To be able to perform Incremental forever backups using different retentions (such as daily, monthly and anually). Currently, TSM for VE cannot use the same set of backups to assign different retentions. Only one management class is possible.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Delivered

TSM support for Oracle Linux

TSM support for Oracle Linux 6 (BAC,SA,TDP)
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Delivered

Use same Tivoli Integrated Portal for all TIP products

We would like to use the Tivoli Integrated Portal for all TIP products. We would like to use the Policy & Role Modeler 1.1 Tivoli Storage Manager in the same TIP as OMNIbus Web GUI 7.3.1, Impact 6.1.0.1, TCR 2.1.1. TIP version: 2.2.0.7
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Delivered

ITM for TSM agent (SK) is un-usable in existing environment

ITM for Tivoli Storage Manager is only offered as an all-inclusive ITM installation (utilizing the much loathed DE no less..) This packaging is different than any other ITM agent offered by IBM that we have seen. It makes remotely deploying, maint...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

TSM reporting problem.

As I described in 02641,EUB,649, please modify the DB2 database design to allow us to able to use the real ‘Start Date' and and ‘End Date' instaed of '00:00:00' in the table of 'Node Activity' on the TSM admin center DB2 database. I was told this ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

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