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Move Data from old copy pool to new copy pool

In order to handle tape media upgrades or tape recording format upgrades, customers need the ability to MOVE data from an old copy pool to a new copy pool
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Enable automatic regeneration of an expired password on any session

When the password of a client node expires on the TSM server node, the client node is able to automatically set a new password when passwordaccess is set to generate. However, this does not work if the password expires while a client node is in th...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

TSM does not allow versioning of file-attributes only

TSM does not offer any possibility to do a backup with version control for only(!) the standard UNIX-file-permissions. In fact, TSM does not allow to backup the file-perms only, with or without versioning.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Enumerate VMs to be backed up

Enumerate VMs to be backed up
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Multiple data movers

Multiple data movers
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

SVC integrated Host Free backup

Integrate the TSM backup agent with SVC/DS*/V7K storage technologies to allow for block based backpup similar to TSM for VE * CBT. This would likely be done by leveragingcurrent Flashcopy technologies which already maintain bitmaps of change block...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Support for EMC Atmos cloud storage platform

Customer requested support for TSM to use Atmos cloud storage as they are migrating off of EMC Centerra device.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

TS3500 (3584) time synchronization (NTP)

We have a TS3500 Tape Library and we can not set the date & time synchronization to the company's internal NTP server, there is no such option on the Web-based Administration Interface.Please give us an advice how to do this or please enhance ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

incremantal backup via NDMP

Since TSM's limitation of doing NDMP backup of filer as full+differential. So if its having feature of adding incremental as one option, so we don't need to waste space by having differential backup as its become so large at one point until u do f...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

TSM: Smarter Reclamations when objects span tapes

If an object (a huge file, or a backup from a TDP agent, for example) spans three or more volumes, so it starts on one volume, consumes all of one or more volumes, and ends on the third (or last) volume, any reclamation of a tape containing a segm...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration