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Archive function

An ability to run archive on the TSM server side insted of from the clientsid where you have the competition with normal backup windows.When the archive is on diskpool, dedup can be used.generate backupset is to devclass that can't be deduped.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

TSM Consolidate Command (SYS4645)

A TSM "Consolidate" command will do something similar to move nodedata, but thresholds can be set based on a node's level of tape fragmentation. Just as it's seamless that migration or reclamation starts automatically when disk and tapes reach a c...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Document, support procedure to import TSM 6.3 Cognos reports in TCR server

ITM V6 customers already have ITM TEMS, TEPS and Tivoli Data Warehouse (TDW) servers for monitoring. TCR 2.1.1 can be downloaded and installed from ITM 6.2.3....We need to know the TSM 6.3 package to download/extract to retrieve the TSM 6.3 Cognos...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 4 Not under consideration

Cancel all processes of a given type by name

Enhance the cancel command to be able to cancel all processes of a given type by name.� For example, a �cancel migrations� or a �cancel reclamations� command should cancel those types of processes if they are running without executing a cancel pro...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Further develop the storage pool migration mechanism

Develop the storage migration mechanism (both the MIGRATE STG command and automatically initiated equivalents) to either move data at a more granular level than node ownership, or develop it to support multiple processes per whatever level of gran...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

set policies for retentions within TSM

NOTE: Colin Dawson is aware of this RFETivoli SSAM/TSM Couldn't policies for retention be set by one person and then validated and activated by another? Four Eyes principle. Needed to prevent single persons from deleting content.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM support for Oracle Linux and Oracle VM Server

We need support for this implementation:- Installation of Tivoli Storage Manager BA client, Tivoli Storage Manager API and Tivoli Data Protection for Oracle on operating system Oracle Linux 6.1;- Installation of Tivoli Storage Manager BA client on...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

mechanism be built to change the global V7000 values (TP grain size instead of each volume at a time) or all performance rela

Requesting a mechanism be built to change the global V7000 values (TP grain size instead of each volume at a time) or all performance related data)?
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

TSM4VE vCenterPlugin: Possibility to disable a job

Currently in the vCenter Plugin it is not possible to disable a schedule. The only possibility to "disable" a schedule is to delete the schedule or to set it to a time very very far in future.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

FCM vCenterPlugin: Email notification

If a job fails, it only can be seen in the vCenter Plugin, so the administrators always have to take a look in the Plugin in order to check if the backup schedules were successfully. It is necessary to have a functionality to send out an email onc...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

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