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Product functionality

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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
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Delivered

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...
almost 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...
over 12 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...
almost 11 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 ...
almost 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...
almost 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.
almost 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
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 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)
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 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 ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered