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TSM for System Back-up and Recovery

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possibility to tag all tcp/ip package with QoS tags

We have problems that the backup and recoveries has an impact of business traffic on remote locations.Especially if the backups and recoveries takes so long time that they exceed backup window and extend on to normal business hours.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Windows Spectrum Protect Client no need of Backupoperator to backup Shares

We use System Protect Client for Windows to backup/Archive files on our NAS from NetApp. But the System Protect Client for Windows needs to run with backupoperator rights. This is ok, if I am the only user. But a user with this right, has at least...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

We want to be able to copy a key from one key group to another on the same TKLM server

We are talking about the TKLM product. We want to be able to have the same encryption key in 2 different key groups using the same TKLM encryption server. We need this because we have several key groups and Device groups on one TKLM server. Approx...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

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
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Keep alive packets

I would like the client and server to send and answer keep alive packets on the main restore connection so that stateful firewalls will not time out the connection when the restore takes a long time due to many tape mounts or other reasons. It's o...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

TSM EIF events to multiple EIF targets

TSM requires the ability of directing the TSM event feed to two or more EIF targets for resilience. Target can be any listener capable of receiving EIF events
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

TSM currently can recognized different file systems types. I woud like TSM by default to be able to recognize GFS2 file syste

TSM need to be able to recognize GFS2 file systems like it does with any other file system type seen by TSM. When TSM is installed and configured it should be able to see this file system with out any manually intervention. It should be a native s...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

PMR 37047,999,760

System: Spectrum ProtectActor: Keep every files/directories "Updated date/time" correct Spectrum Protect backups and restore user's files and directories. When restoring files and directories "updated date/time" information in metadata set to "bac...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Ability to delete EXPORT volumes

I would like IBM to give TSM an ability or command to delete volumes marked as EXPORT based on the volume number. "DELETE VOLUME XXX discarddata=yes" does not work because exports are not part of any storage pools and "delete volhistory todate=XXX...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 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 ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Not under consideration

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