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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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TSM Scratch volume selection for SCSI type libraries

1. When a tape is checked out, then checked back in, the mount count should not be reset. The count should only be set to zero when a new tape is labeled into the library or forced to zero by options. 2. Add an option to the check in command to fo...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Journal based backup for Sun Solaris

Support for journal based backup as on AIX and Windows.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Public repo for TSM Linux Clients

Provide a public repo (repository) for the TSM Clients that can be used for automated synching for new versions of TSM Linux Clients.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

AIX JOURNAL-BASED BACKUP CAUSES "MISC KERNEL HEAP" MEMORY CONSUMPTION (APAR IC97751)

The "filepath" kernel extension used to monitor file system change activities allocates kernel heap memory for each file accessed on the system and keeps that memory until the system is rebooted. On systems with many files this memory consumption ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Display restore/ retreive size prior to performing action.

Be able to find the amount of data that is to be restored given the current selection in the GUI/web client.Using the cli you can run a q backup <filspec> -subdir=yes -querysummary To get a total file count, size, est number of tapes etcThis...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Multi-session retrieve

Sometimes we may want to retrieve a full directory from previous archive session. Actually even if the files are spread over multiple tapes, the retrieve is done only on tape at a time instead of using multiple sessions to retrieve from multiple t...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

SSL/TLS Certificate Handling

The product should contain a mechanism to set up and administer SSL in FIPS compliant mode without requiring non-TSM commands. We would like to see TSM server commands for importing certificates. The encryption configuration should be kept in the ...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

allowing include file from command line

dsmc does not allow to specify an include file from the command line.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Ability to specify timestamp in archival retrieve with -filelist

Would like the ability to batch-retrieve specific versions of archived files. Using -filelist or some other method, not picky about how, as long as it can be handled in a batch process with no input from humans. We know the date stamp on the exact...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Allow ANS1946W "skipped file" messages to be disabled on restore to increase performance

Restores of file systems with very large numbers of files can be unnecessarily slowed if the "-ifnewer" or "-replace=no" options are used and a large portion of the target file system already contains files. A recent restore attempt of a 6 million...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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