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Selective nodes for Expire Inventory

Option to be able to run selective multiple processes of Expire Inventory based on nodename, not nodeid. (addendum to request 24475). Command could be EXPIRE INVENTORY NODE=<node_name> with ability to do use node name masking: eg EXPIRE INVE...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Multiple Expire Inventory processes

Option to be able to run multiple processes of EXPIRE INVENTORY. Command could be EXPIRE INVENTORY EIPR=n up to Tivoli acceptable maximum (say 5?). Default would still be one. This would also be applicable to running multiple EXPIRE INVENTORY NODE...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Monitoring Tivoli Storage Manager, lenght of Contact Field

In TSM Monitoring and AdminCenter Common Reporting 6.3.1, the lenght of the Node Contact field appears to be only 20 characters. Please extend it to the lenght allowed by TSM.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Provide a means for restoring the TSM DB without having a copy of the volume history file on hand.

There needs to be a way of recovering the TSM DB by specifying which tape to recover from. This would be similar to what was available in V5 with;> dsmserv restore db volumenames={volume_id} devc={tapedevclass} commit=yes
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Delivered

Direct a TSM client to connect to another TSM server

It would be helpful if a TSM server could direct a TSM client to connect to another TSM server, either temporarily or permanently. Currently we have to change a TSM configuration file on a client server (dsm.opt) to change its default or find how ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

TSM for HANA

Amerisource Bergen is willing to act as a pilot for TSM on SAP HANA Appliance. The SAP HANA product is getting a lot of attention and our Certified HANA Appliance Solutions are falling short because we do not offer backup and recovery solutions, D...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Backup endtime not available in TEPS-Console (through ITM-MOSWOS-Agent for TSM)

Backup ENDTIME-ENDDATE not available in TEPS-Console (through ITM-MOSWOS-Agent for TSM)
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Tivoli TSM clustering

There should be an functionality to configure existing TSM instance into windows 2008 r2 cluster.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Delivered

TSM V6: Show Us the Tables, Please

Please expose to the SELECT command in TSM V6 (and later, if any) all of the internal tables that TSM uses, with exceptions for things like passwords and other sensitive information.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Delivered

TSM support for Centera devices on 64bit Windows OS's

Currently, while TSM 6.2 is supported on 64bit Windows (such as Windows 2008 R2), and the EMC Centera APIs are also supported on 64bit Windows as of the current 3.2 fp5 release, TSM server does not support connectivity to Centera devices on 64bit ...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

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