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Replace DEFAULT with actual management class name in reporting.

The default management class is always shown as DEFAULT in SELECT * from BACKUPS reports rather than the actual class name which would be more useful in determining what the retention periods are for a given set of backup files, whereas with defau...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE Automatic VM Exclusion

I would like the ability for TSM for VE to automatically exclude VM's which already has TSM BA Client installed and use for file level backup. This list could be generated from TSM Admin/Operations centre (Or any 3rd Party software managing TSM) a...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

How much space is needed.

When TSM issues ANR0534W size estimate exceedes stg, it would bee very nices if the estimated size was showen too.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

HSM Recalls slow with sparse files.

Files that are sparse can take an exceptional length of time to recall from tape.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 Not under consideration

Password re-use

Passwords used for interactive accounts different from the previous 12 passwords.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Delete Files when remote storage is full (when WaitIFRemoteFull is set)

When remote storage is full and WaitIFRemoteISFull is set to prevent loss of older files, there is no other way to resolve that situation than increase the remote storage. If the user has deleted files, there is still a change to purge such files ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Workstations 2 Not under consideration

Linux Storage Agent needs to be broken out of Server install

Installing the TSM LANFREE agent in linux is cumbersome due to the size of the Server package, the need to unpack it, and the installer. If possible, please break it out of the TSM server package and put it into an RPM format to allow easier insta...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Display a warning when Win 2008 System State files are skipped

On a Windows 2008 server, when you backup a directory containing a file that Windows identifies as part of the System State, TSM will quietly skip the file. Would like to see an information or warning message (possibly also a return code 4) to ind...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Commandline restore

Commandline Restore Feature for recovering user data after reinstalling or replacing computer. Parameters needed:- server\share- oldcomputer - filter (select file e.g. "D\dir\dir")- overwrite (0 means do not overwrite newer files)
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Workstations 2 Not under consideration

TSM BA restore from mounted vmdk files

Eliminate backup of windows client, and restore data from mounted vmdk files directly on the vm (and from the vm).
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

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