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Storage Protect Family

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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

Record TSM Backupset Tape utilization in the backupsets table

At present the only way to obtain the tape utilization of a backupset is to look for the backupset completion message. once this rolls off the activity log it is not possible to get this information. I propose that an additional column is added to...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Export node. Option to only export active files

We want the option to export only Active files not Active-deleted files as well when running export node.Today when run export node with filedata=backupactive both Active files and the last Active file know to the tsm database (both active and ina...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM for VE Using VMware Resource Pools for backup selection

Select vm backup based on resource pool, i.e., use resource pools as vm selection with the include.vmfull domain (similar to hosts, hostclusters, etc.). .
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

please bring back a dsmfmt like tool in tsm6. formatting hundrets of 10GB volumes is not fun in the command line

dsmfmt could be automized by running a shell script.without it you have to format volume by volume.that take REALLY long time.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Segregation of roles within the system administrator class to separate Backup Admin tasks from User Admin tasks

I Have found a previous rejected RFE similar to our request below http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=15387 However this was a fairly simple request for RBAC within TSM. What Deutsche Bank require is slightly m...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

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...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Planned for future release

Expose node groups in TSM reporting

Expose the node groups and the membership of the nodes in the node groups so reports can be grouped by the node group.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

Expose collocation groups in TSM reporting

Expose the collocation groups and node members hip for reporting purposes.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 4 Not under consideration

Support pureScale DB2 systems with TSM for ERP

TSM for ERP needs to support DB2 pureScale systems with the same features currently supported for non-pureScale systems.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 3 Not under consideration

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