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Would be usefull to be able compress when doing a backup db on disk

When we do a backup db on disk, the file take quite a lot of space. It would be a nice feature to be able to compress direclty those file. This especially useful since if we do compress the database dump (using for example bzip), it compress about...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

dsmrm always delivers rc=0

dsmrm always delivers a return code of 0 regardless whether the action completes successfully or not. This makes it impossible for embedded applications (dsmrm is called by a script) to control if a dsmrm ended successfully or not. Return code 0 s...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 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 .
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Linux filesystems not supported

there are some filesystems that tsm do not support, and appear as UNKNOWN on tsm, like Red Hat GFS.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

Prevent storing duplicate filespaces in a DAG setup with active/active configuraiton

I have a customer where they use DAG setup on MS Exchange 2010. They move the active databases between the Exchange server nodes and this result in a new filespace under the proxy node used for backup of the Exchange environment. Thereby data are ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Delivered

Enhance SnapDiff Backups to run alongside SnapMirror

Currently, SnapDiff backups have two possible options. –diffsnapshot=create, which is the default, means that TSM creates the snapshot and then compares that with the previously created snapshot to determine the difference for backups. This has a ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Delivered

Exchange TDP scheduler enhancments

Current Exchange 2010 DAG environment allows for moment of active DB. TSM TDP is not able to adequately keep pace or understand this. Additional features need to be built in to allow for choice or/opt file, selection of backup preferences.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Send Email from TSM Server

Send email from TSM server.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Delivered

TSM support for Centera devices on 64bit Windows OS's

Currently, while TSM 6.2 is supported on 64bit Windows (such as Windows 2008 R2), and the EMC Centera APIs are also supported on 64bit Windows as of the current 3.2 fp5 release, TSM server does not support connectivity to Centera devices on 64bit ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

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