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TSM backup wildcard * on DOMAIN statement like DOMAIN /dir*

To be consistent with wildcard usage of "*" in TSM backup exclude/include syntax, this request is for the '*' to be provided as a wildcard for use in the DOMAIN statement, eg DOMAIN all-local -/dir/subdir*.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Storage size does not consider full values

The storage used is very misleading. For example if the remote storage is 7.62 GB, it shows as &GB. We need accurate numbers for checking the usage.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Workstations 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...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Backup algorithm needs to be changed to work OK for a chrooted environment

Customer expect that all files will to be backed up. This works under RHEL 6 buts makes trouble in a chrooted environment under RHEL 7. It seems that RedHat in RHEL 7 has changed the way they deal with a directory that is on one side part of the “...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

FCM and Global Mirror with Chage Volumes

I would like to have an integration between the FlashCopy Manager and Remote Mirroring (Global Mirror with Change Volumes).
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

TSM for Space Management - dsmmigundelete

The User's guide for current release of TSM for Space Management (Unix) states: "You cannot use the dsmmigundelete command to re-create stub files for individual files or specific groups of files." In practice it is often necessary to restore indi...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 0 Not under consideration

read-only LUNs for Storwize/SVC

We use VEEAM software to backup our VMware environment. VEEAM has the functionality to backup the VMs through SAN instead of network backup. But therefore the physical VEEAM backup server (Windows server) must be able to see the LUNs which are map...
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Declaration of "SID $HOME" as an option and not a requirement in the FCM4Unix installer

Wish:The Flashcopy Manager for Unix (FCM4Unix) installer should provide the activation for the first DB2/Oracle/SAP-Oracle instance as an option and not as a requirement.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

SVC 7.4.0.4 error message

When upgrading SVC code on V7000 from from 7.x to 7.4.x, after the upgrade was successful, the upgrade radio button is greyed out and a error message "enclosure stalled" is displayed on the GUI. The same message is displayed when lsupdate command ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Mounting & Dismounting of tapes while executing backup jobs in scripts and non functioning of overflow location.

We are executing multiple backup jobs under one script, while executing scripts we have observed that there are multiple mounting and dismounting of tapes occur due to which our backup window has increased. We are also facing issues for non functi...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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