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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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Add "number of copies/locations/storagepools" to q archive client output

We want to be able to be able to see from the client how many locations an archive is stored. A location being a storage pool. ie if it's in two storage pools it is in 2 locations. An additional detail parameter could be displayed as egStoragepool...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Improve interface for includes and excludes in the TSM client

Includes and excludes are difficult to configure for novice users (even for some experienced admins). I believe we could get much better adoption of TSM in our environment if there was a config wizard that would build the include/exclude files. A ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Flag to not provide tivoli header messages with select statements.

A possible flag to be included on dsmadmc to NOT respond with the tivoli header messages about the server/client release information.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

KeepAlive Option with TSM Client

Introduction of a keepalive functionality, e.g. by means of an adjustable parameter depending on timeout values set by firewall between client and server
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Problem on mapping multiple CIFS shares to perform snapdiff backups on a windows host

I have TSM 6.2 server running on Windows 2008 64bit and TSM 6.3 Client runing on VM (Windows 2008) for snapdiff backups
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

Exclude vRDM from BACKUP VM FULL

We would like to be able to backup full images of a VM while excluding the RDM (both pRDM & excluding vRDM). Basically i would like a similar option to VMPROCESSWITHPRDM except with vRDM instead of pRDM
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Multiple DOMAIN.VMFULL statements should be allowed in dsm.opt

Multiple DOMAIN.VMFULL statements should be allowed in dsm.opt for the backup/archive client for VMFULL type backups.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

BAclient support for VxCFS

The VxCFS feature is based on a distributed lock manager + VxFS filesystem.While VxFS as a filesystem type is supported, it's not clear whether the overall VxCFS feature is supported or not.A note similar to the one regarding use of GPFS under AIX...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Option to Restrict access rights of TSM BA Client

add an option to dsm.sys or dsm.opt that introduces a "strict" mode , i.e. FILESPACERESTRICTION DOMAIN | LOCAL | ALL with the effekt that BA Web Client GUI of a node only shows the Filespaces of that node and allows access for Backup/Restore a) on...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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