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TDP Domino support for RHEL6 64-bit

Currently, the latest TDP for Domino for Linux x86 is version 5.5.3, which supports only RHEL 5 for 64-bit systems. Most customers are using Domino with RHEL 6 64-bit. Do we have roadmap to support RHEL6 64-bit with TDP for Domino?
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Planned for future release

Certified TDP for Mail on Red Hat 6 x86_64

We have a TSM Server 6.3.3 and Domino Server 8.5.3 fp3 on Red Hat 6 x86_64, however the whole environment is certified except the "TDP for Mail".The "TDP for Mail" is already running on our environment and works fine.Therefore, I would like that I...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Planned for future release

Provide capability to use custom option and configuration files with the MMC GUI in the SQL TDP v6.4

Re-instatement of the /tsmoptfile and /configfile parameters with the MMC GUI for SQL TDP v6.4 so that the option file and config file can have non-standard names and can be located in non-default folders.These parameters are currently available w...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Planned for future release

Add path status monitoring to Monitoring for TSM

We would like to add monitoring of TSM PATH status to Tivoli Monitoring for TSM. There is no such functionality currently.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Planned for future release

Cross platform migration (Solaris/AIX to linux)

X platform migration from Solaris/AIX to linux Primarily looking at being able to go from Unix/Linux to another Unix/Linux platform initially at the TSM 6.x version. There is also interested in migrating from Windows to Linux.Migrations would be e...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Planned for future release

ASR Support for EFI systems

ASR-based recovery must be performed from within the Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE). The exception to using ASR with Windows NT 6 operating systems is for 64-bit systems whose firmware interface is based on Extensible Firmware Interfa...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Planned for future release

dsminfo OSINFO section more clarity

Requesting that OSINFO section of dsminfo output give more clarity on the OS distribution/level instead of just kernel level. This would be much more useful especially on Linux systems that could be any of dozens of Linux distributions.A system ca...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

Improve session management in TSM to prevent ANR8216W messages

Currently, message ANR8216W is issued when TSM deliberately destroys sessions that it is not using. This is leading to many messages on the error log that are clouding real issues. Customer would like this message to be removed if TSM deliberately...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

tsm 4 vm: disable fallback to full backup when incremental fails

When an incremental backup fails (because of some vmware problem - the reason that it exists is not to be discussed here) - TSM client shows warning (“ANS9387W Incremental backup unsuccessful for virtual machine 'vm_machine'. Performing Full backu...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

TSM Client compatibility with the yet to be released version of Windows 2012

We wil be testing windows 2012 nextyear and rolling it out sometime in 2014. Need to know if TSM is compatible
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Planned for future release

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