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TSM for System Back-up and Recovery

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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
almost 9 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.
about 9 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...
about 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 ...
about 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

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...
over 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...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

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

Client Deployment Request

I understand it is a requirement of automatic client deployment that clients contact the server on the address as configured by the SERVERHLADDRESS. In our environment, the SERVERHLADDRESS set on the TSM Server cannot be contacted by the client be...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 6 Not under consideration

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