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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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TSM needs basic functionality on ALL common OS:es

The TSM client segfaults on startup on Fedora 18. While Fedora 18 hasn't yet made it to the best-effort support category, IBM should at least try to have dsmc basic functionality on all common operating systems. I'm also told that Ubuntu 13.04 use...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Planned for future release

TSM BAClient for Solaris 11 x86

A TSM Backup Archive Client for Solaris 11 x86.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Planned for future release

ASR Support for EFI systems

ASR-based recovery must be performed from within the Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE). The exception to using ASR with Windows NT 6 operating systems is for 64-bit systems whose firmware interface is based on Extensible Firmware Interfa...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Planned for future release

dsminfo OSINFO section more clarity

Requesting that OSINFO section of dsminfo output give more clarity on the OS distribution/level instead of just kernel level. This would be much more useful especially on Linux systems that could be any of dozens of Linux distributions.A system ca...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

Dropdown lists for Restore VM operations

It would be nice to have the client populate the Datacenter, Host,, and Datastore options in the Restore VM screen.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

Change dsmc selective to handle *, ?, doublequote, singlequote as nonmetacharacters

We want Linux GPFS mmbackup to backup all files that are legal in GPFS. Certain filenames currently cannot be backed up from mmbackup (RedHat Enterprise Linux5.6 (64bit), GPFS 3.3.0-14, TSM client 6.2.2.0, TSM server 6.1.2.1) because of the presen...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Planned for future release

Request to change the use of Name servers in stead of /etc/hosts file

Tivoli products are still dependent of using /etc/hosts file instead of using Name Servers. Is it not a bit old fashioned the use of /etc/hosts file?We do not use the /etc/hosts file but when we want to upgrade TSM server we need to put all kind o...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

Show more VM details in the BAclient Restore Window

Show more details about the VM in the restore window. Useful would be information about: Storage Demand (Thin with the real demand/Thick), Disk-Layout, Datacenter, Datastore
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

TSM Client Install

Installing TSM B/A client without impacting other products using IBM GSKit. We wanted to not replace the existing "c:\program files\gskx" folderone solution could create an new V6.2.x compatible gskit folder in the same directory or to allow to ch...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

Point in Time directory restore selection from GUI

When performing a point in time restore through the GUI, would like to be able to navigate through any directories.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

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