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Allow snapdiff backups of NetApp CIFS volumes containing widelinks

TSM uses NetUseEnum() to determine if a NetApp CIFS share is connected before attempting a snapdiff backup. When run on a NetApp CIFS volume with widelinks, it results in the following error: ANS2831E: Incremental by snapshot difference cannot be ...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

The enhancement of the status of the backup job on the TSM Operations Center

System: TSM Operations Center(OC)Actor: The user who wants to check the status of the backup job on the TSM OC. The TSM OC is a new console of Tivoli Storage Manager. Description: When we run the backup commands (jobs) using the TSM B/A client (CL...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Improvements to Client Update targeting in Operations Center

The new automatic client updates built into Spectrum Protect Operations Center (OC) 8.1.3 does not currently support targeting of supported versions, nor filtering by OS version in order to do so manually. There are two improvements I would like t...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Allow for creation of canned "Data Protection Report" but limited to selected Policy Domains

Allow for creation of canned "Data Protection Report" but limited to selected Policy Domains, across one or more TSM servers, which would include client related sections such as backup success rate, activity over 24 hours, protected clients and nu...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Support Lin_Tape Driver on RHLE 6.9 x86/64 for Product Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family.

Need client support for updated Lin_Tape Driver on RHLE 6.9 x86/64 (v3.0.21.0) prior to official release in Nov 2017. Related to Current Crit AA1279 AND PMR 10768,082,000.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Deactivate Data for Sybase ASE Backups

Would be nice if Sybase ASE API backups can bemarked inactive using the "deactivate data"command. Currently we rely on a home grown script which is not that reliable.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM on GPFS quota support

del fi on repl target using dedup and GPFS . Problembeschreibung when running some del fi on a repl target using dedub and having DB, LOG and STGP on GPFS caused by the Dedup Deletion Worker the archlog was used to the given maximum by quota, i gu...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

GFS2 Support with TSM

GFS2 File systems are not supported with TSM currently and would like to see if we could enhance the support in future TSM versions. We are running TSM server version 6.2.4 now ( will be upgrading to 6.3 by next month) and client version used is 7...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Image encryption

By not allowing a image backup to be encrypted a potential security breach may arise. The particular situation is that a few files in a filesystem are encrypted. A image backup will negate that as it stores all files/blocks and all files will be r...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum protect support for Huawei cloud

Currently in IBM reference, spectrum protect only support the following list of cloud object storage https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22000915.There are huawei cloud customer that wanted to see that they want to use spectrum prote...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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