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TSM for System Back-up and Recovery

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TSM API for IBMi

The TSM API is no longer supported on an IBMi. During our upgrade to V7.1 we opened a PMR because we had a question/problem but the PMR was closed with a resolution that the API is not supported.We implemented an IBMi to TSM solution as a logical ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Optimized backup support for deduplicated windows server file systems

TSM client cannot deal with natively deduplicated windows filesystems, it is only able to handle deduplicated data efficiently through image backups.The problem is that image backups are not incremental, they are huge and take too long to be viabl...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

Support for restoring concurrent vg

There are some insignificant errors during OS restore with concurrent vg via NIM Resource Boot. “0516-1305 chvg: This command is not allowed while volume group sapbinvg is concurrent capable”“0516-1300 chpv: -h option is not allowed for hdisk3 bec...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Is a defect

Keep supporting TSM API (backup to TSM via BRMS on IBM i)

We would like to extend TSM API support for BRMS for TSM 6.2 & V7.1
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Windows 10 support

Please let us know when there is a TSM Windows client available to support Windows 10 operating system.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 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

Exclude C:\swapfile.sys by default in Windows

In Windows, "q inclexl" tells me that C:\hiberfil.sys and C:\pagefile.sys are excluded by the operating system. In Windows 8/8.1 (and possibly also 2012), there is a new extra paging file, C:\swapfile.sys, usually of about 256MB in size. I'd like ...
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 ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

Moving backupsets between device types

We are moving to a tapeless Tivoli environment. We have many backupsets on LTO cartridges that need to be kept forever (so they say). I need a method of moving these backupsets to a disk device type. This will keep us from having to keep an LTO dr...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 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...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

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