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TSM for System Back-up and Recovery

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tsm and ilmt agent for ubuntu ppc64le

We are starting using free linux distros like ubuntu to provide several services to our customers. We run ubuntu on ibm i power hardware.It would be nice to use also tsm for backup on this machines and also have subcapicity support on ubuntu os. s...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Support TSM Sysback for VIO Servers

Currently the only way to take a backup of a VIO server is by using the backupios command. We use Sysback (Tivoli Storage Manager for Sysback Backup and Recovery) for all of our AIX hosts. We would like to use the same product for our VIO servers....
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Dynamic Load of DB2 Logger Manager for DB2 log archive Backups

When performing DB2 log archives the DB2 logger preloads the TSM Configuration, any changes made the the archive copy group require a cycle of the DB2 instance. This creates an unnessary outage for a simple archive copygroup change, advise that th...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

For a CLI restore node command allow the filelist file to have over 1,000 entries. ANR4948E is currently the error returned.

Create a new system parameter, say MAXLISTEN, which can default to 1000 for maximum lines in a file list file for a restore node request; but is client modifiable say up to 100000 or even more
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

image backup support for Solaris 10 ZFS filesystem

image backup support for Solaris 10, ZFS file system
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 4 Not under consideration

Need to devolep the BA clinent code for SLES12 PPC

Looking or a BA client code for SLES12 PPC on linux.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Re-Map Volume Location

It would be beneficial to be able to offline a volume in a storage pool, for example your backuppool. Then at the OS level be able to manually move or copy the volume to a new physical location, log back into the TSM service and run a update vol t...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Windows 2016 and TSM 8.1.0.0

Since we can't use the new 8.1.0.0 TSM gui to perform a systemstate restore, we have to use WINPE with the TSM client installed.The problem is there are instructions for this, and the ones posted on IBM's sites relate to Windows 2012.Which by the ...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Not under consideration

TSM for Linux on zSystems non linux formatted (image/Volumes) raw dump & restore

The customer DRV (German Retirement Funds) is in the process in deploying TSM on Linux on zSystems globally to replace competition and also as a replacement for some z/OS functions. For this purpose DRV need raw access for dump / restore for non L...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Not under consideration

OEL Oracle Enterprise Linux Client Support for TSM Backup

Need to validate that TSM will support OEL (Oracle Enterprise Linux) as an operating system option in CMS for the CSM4Oracle offering. OEL will become the default OS option for CMS and OVM and I need to ensure that it will be supported by the TSM ...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

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