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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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Add a status message to dsmwebcl.log on startup indicating POLLING or PROMPTED mode

Please add a status message to dsmwebcl.log on startup indicating whether POLLING or PROMPTED mode is being used, as well as the polling period (if polling).
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Ignore/Skip Windows RC Codes during Backup

As you can see in the PMR we got a big problem with some files on a netapp filer. This files were created by randomly by netapp filer. Problem is that these files have no owner, or other NTFS securitys so an windows RC appears if the BA Client try...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

Domain statement honoured by archive process

Many customers need to do monthly/yearly Full backups. An archive is not an option since all filespaces to be included in the archive must be manually added. Systemstate info is not included in an archive and the DOMAIN statement is not honoured b...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Solaris x86 TSM Client support for Version 7.x

We have productive Solaris Servers both x86 and SPARC on Solaris 10 and 11. We run our SAP-Environment and other Services and continue to deploy further Functionalities on Solaris. Most of our central Products run on Solaris. There are no plans to...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Not under consideration

BMR -TSM client should contain a very small set of files to run on WinPE (w/o java etc)

BMR -TSM client should contain a very small set of files to run on WinPE (w/o java etc).TSM Client is bigger than the rest of a WinPE BootCD and also containing unneeded files like JAVA. This need more time to load the image into RAM during boot a...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

TSM IBM

Customer request to get a TSM BA client supported on FreeBSD OS, and need to take this compatibility in the future releases
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

TSM FileClient for high resolution displays

We use Lenovo X1 Notebooks with high resolution displays. The TSM Fileclient on the Notebooks with Windows 10 is tiny. Other application fit or could scale to the resolution.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

BA client bind to specific IP

We need to run multiple DSMC SCHED on the same windows machine and we use sessioninit=serveronly. Due to firewall restrictions we are required to use only 1 single port. For each DSMC SCHED we have a separate IP and defined tcpclientaddress in dsm...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

change owner ID of archived objects, in GUI it is not possible to see the archived data if owner id not exist anymore

change owner ID of archived objects.In GUI it is not possible to see the archived data if the owner id does not exist anymore. we were advised that we should open an RFE for this: Answer from IBM: There is not a way to change OWNER after the objec...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

If primaray server hang, baclients tried to connect on secondary replication server and never come back on primary.

If primary replication server hang, clients tried to connect on the secondary and never come back on secondary until CAD service isrestarted. I think this should not append and clients should automaticly reconnect on primary. Also, this is for bac...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration