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TSM for System Back-up and Recovery

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Need TSM Client 6.3 and 64-bit API support in Sysback

We use Tivoli Storage Manager for System Backup and Recovery (aka Sysback) to backup and restore rootvg for our AIX servers. Sysback has always required the TSM Client 32-bit API for operation. Beginning with TSM Client 6.3, there will no longer b...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Planned for future release

Need to devolep the BA clinent code for SLES12 PPC

Looking or a BA client code for SLES12 PPC on linux.
over 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...
over 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 ...
over 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...
over 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 ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

CAB extension support for TSM

Hi Dev, I wonder when TSM will support NDMP with CAB (Cluster aware backup) for Netapp cDOT? I have a bunch of netapp systems that I would like to backup with TSM and CAB but the IBM support told me it's not possible today. On page 53 in this neta...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Can we have the option to add multiple TEC(Omnibus) hosts to dsmserv.opt (TSM)

Can we have ability to add multiple TEC(Omnibus) servers to the dsmserv.opt file in TSM
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

provide tsm sysback support for aix vios servers

we would like to see tivoli tsm sysback support so we could backup/restore aix vios servers
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

IBM AIX SAS HBA support with HP branded LTO Tape drives.

We tried qualifying HP LTO5 & 6 SAS drives in our labs with AIX 6.1 & 7.1, but the OS would hang when we tried to discover them. No issue getting it to work with HP LTO FC drives, but fails wtih SAS drives using the IBM AIX SAS HBA.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

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