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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Working Version for tsm 6.3 on solaris 10 x86

hello, this is not really a new feature. on ibm webpages, solaris 10 x86 is "not supported" for the server and client. so it wood be good to have versions for solaris10 x86
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM NDMP Support for EMC VNXe backups

We would like the ability to backup CIFS shares on an EMC VNXe (Low cost storage array, supports CIFS only) storage array. This would be via NDMP protocol.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM Archives retention periods should change when new retention period set

We recently changed the retention periods on both our backups and archives. When the backups ran they rebound the new retention period to the old backups. We would like this same thing to happen with archives.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Delete Schedule needs warning(Ye/s/No) for the nodes associated

'Delete Schedule' command removes the schedule from domain and the nodes that are associated to the backup schedule. Instead, looking for an warning message for the clients,while being removed from the schedule(association). Agreed that,it will be...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Allow NDMP TYPE variable to be specified

Allow the NDMP TYPE variable to be user specified..
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Add Node classification option to node properties

An additional option on the node to specify it as a production / non-production node. other classifications could be added to this list of possible node status's.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

TSM Command to Identify tapes for Restore(not the SQL/DB2 query)

I am looking for a command to fetch the restore tapes of a client required to restore a file from TSM server.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Sort the list of options displayed by the "QUERY OPTION" command in alphabetical order.

The list of options displayed in the output of the QUERY OPTION server command should be sorted in alphabetical order.It is error-prone, frustrating, and time-consuming to review the option settings currently as they are displayed in seemingly ran...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

A single DB2 id for working with multiple TSM 6.2 instances

Currently TSM 6.2 instances use instance owner to issue db2 commands.As there can be multiple instances to check , monitor and issue commands to I request to provide a way to use one db2 id to issue commands to mulltiple TSm instances
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

TSM Archive from Incremental

HelloI wan to suggest , an ARCHIVE to be made from the Daily incremental backup.Many customers want to run specific archive for specific folder .Since the data is ALREADY backed up via the daily incremental backup , it will be wise to "copy" the d...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

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