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EXPORT NODE PROCESSING ENHANCEMENTS

EXPORT NODE processing issues a FALSE success, when in fact invalid or non-existent FSID are specified in the EXPORT NODE command.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

VM vmdk multithread process - Enable the per VM multithread (process multiple vmdk from within a single backup job)

VM vmdk multithread process - Enable the per VM multithread (process multiple vmdk from within a single backup job)
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Better management of VMs which have non cleaned snapshots from previous backups

Better management of VMs which have non cleaned snapshots from previous backups
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM 7.2 rebackup prevention

TSM 7.2 rebackup prevention - TSM should not backup files which were just restored (most recent version) by TSM, on next incremental.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to analyze all client options from TSM server regardless if it's in client option file or on server.

Possibility to analyze all client options from TSM server regardless if it's in client option file or on server.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM for Space management - reconciliation preview

The reconciliation command (dsmhsmclc) in TSM for Space Management (Windows) has an option (reconcilemode=emulation) to preview the results of running reconciliation on a filesystem without actually deleting any objects from the TSM server. The eq...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 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....
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

inode number limit

Need to restrict the inode number to be lower than 2^32 . If its greater than that, 32 bit applications are failing complaining file not found.
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

SPS Support for A9000 Multisite Configuration

Client is using a multi-site configuration in their A9000's where they are hyperswapped in prod and async replicating to DR. They need support for this configuration within Spectrum Protect Snapshot for snapshot management.
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

TSM Client Auto-Deploy feature enable in TSM Enterprise Configuration Environment

We are trying to do auto-deploy of TSM clients from v5.5 - 6.2 onwards to v7.1.1.1 for windows and unix through Tivoli Integrated portal but we are getting ANR3200E error. The TSM server run on Linux OS at 6.3.4.00 version. This is a limitation of...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 7 Not under consideration

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