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W2k8 system state backup performance improvement

We are used to systems state backup times of less than 2 minutes (W2k3). Having W2k8 clients now we see backup times of 20 minutes and more just for system state, even it's incremental and nothing has changed. You can also refer to call 75426,025,...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

Update TDP reported level

Currently TSM TDPs report Client Version as the API version of the base node. Either make reported Client Version TDP version or add new API Version to node table so both are reported.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Enable -snapshotroot option with -filelist option on dsmc command

The TSM BA client dsmc command does not currently support the usage of the -snapshotroot option concurrently with the -filelist option when performing selective backups. We would like to use both of these options together when using the the dsmc c...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

dsmc -filelist should support files with any character in name

dsmc backup client should be able to backup files with the -filelist option where the filenames contain *, ?, " or Newline (and ^X and ^Y for the matter of fact). dsmc can backup these files when you specify the files properly quoted on the comman...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

DSMULOG to be added to Linux server versions.

DSMULOG is only AIX, this feature needs to be added to Linux server versions to provide automation options based on TSM activity without the need to run SQL code.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

FCM managing Exchange 2010 DAG backups as same objects for both active and passive nodes.

RFE: FCM must manage backups taken from Exchange 2010 active and passive nodes in DAG configuration as same objects and keep the versions accordingly. That means expiration is done independent of being active or passive. That will help to provide ...
almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Delivered

SVC GM exception management improvements

After a wrong operation where target volumes were deleted on a GM relationship while relationship removal was in course, T2 crash recovery was produced on main cluster. Improvement on RAS requested to limit affectations just to the CG being affect...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Support SSL communication between TSM Fastback for Workstations client and TSM server

We would like to use SSL when communicating between client and TSM-server. This is al-ready possible when installing the API from a TSM ba-client. But it's not supported. We "proved" the functionallity in PMR: 90994,110,846 .
almost 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Single Recovery Group

two controller setup (both active) with only one recovery group (12drives)
over 5 years ago in ESS 1 Delivered

change the default user connection timeout value

Requesting a GUI way to change the default user connection timeout value. when a user is connected (to GUI) for a long time (specifics unknown) they must logoff and back on to see all the volumes again. seems some if not most of the volumes disapp...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

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