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create a postupgradecheck.bin tool where verification on TSM and DB2 version registered on the system after install/upgrade.

For Server version 6.3 I suggest create a postupgradecheck.bin tool where verification on TSM and DB2 version registered on the system afterinstall/upgrade. Also lnsert text and link similar.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Full VM restores place the VM in the parent Datacenter folder and Resource group

When doing a full VM restore and selecting "Original Location", the VM is restored to the parent Data Center folder and parent Resource group in Virtual Center. Given VM permissions can be managed at the folder level in Virtual Center, when a rest...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Delivered

Smaller sized ITM TSM Agent installation package for existing ITM V6 customers

Customers already have a ITM V6 environment with TEMS, TEPS servers. Will not install the IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager V6.3 package for additional TEMS, TEPS server. The AIX part number CI3ZGML package is 3808 MB in size with a...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Delivered

SSL Support for MacOS X Backup-Archive Client

"ssl yes" should be a valid option for the Mac OS X backup-archive client.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Delivered

VP Database Engineering

The tdpsqlc backup command should return the TSM object name of the backup when it completes.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Delivered

FCM: Clone process is IN_PROGRESS forever

If FCM creates a clone system of a database, then fcmcli -f inquire_detail shows the status of the current progress of the background copy. Even if the background copy finishes, the status still is IN_PROGRESS. This currently is "working as design...
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Delivered

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,...
about 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.
over 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...
over 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...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

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