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allow deduplicated tape copy pools for storage pool backup purposes

Currently, only FILE pools can be deduplicated and TAPE pools can not. The reason is that a restore from a deduplicated TAPE pool would be unuseable due to excessive number of tape mounts. We understand this. However, we would still like to see th...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Lift 1TB limit on Image Backups for Veritas Volumes on Solaris

Currently, image backups on vxfs volumes greater than 1TB in size are not allowed. (see: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?tc=SSGSG7&rs=663&uid=swg21417528#solaris_probs ) This limit needs to be removed to allow volumes greater t...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

FCM: Possibility to create FULL FC on XIV

If FlashCopy Manager is used in conjunction with XIV, then FlashCopy Manager only is able to create Space Efficient Snapshots. Unfortunately also, if FlashCopy Manager creates Clone Systems. Especially for Clones or System Copies it is important t...
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Windows uninstall to remove registry and services

During the un-install of the windows client there is a bunch of registry setting and services that are not deleted. I would like an option where you could ask the un-install process to remove the TSM related registry settings and or TSM services. ...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Display restore/ retreive size prior to performing action.

Be able to find the amount of data that is to be restored given the current selection in the GUI/web client.Using the cli you can run a q backup <filspec> -subdir=yes -querysummary To get a total file count, size, est number of tapes etcThis...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Server is backing up transaction logs twice

The TSM Server is backing up the transaction logs twice. 1. The DB2 is automatically backing up the transaction logs to ARCHIVELOGDIR; at each log switch.2. The TSM Server will backup the db2 database using: DB2 BACKUP DB TSMDB1 ONLINE USE TSM Due...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Have TSM not tampering my machine

I noticed that when TSM 5.x was running on my machine, I had problems running a web meeting at the same time as TSM Client was taking all (or most of) the network bandwidth. I would appreciated it if we could either allow a user to change the TSM ...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Add "number of copies/locations/storagepools" to q archive client output

We want to be able to be able to see from the client how many locations an archive is stored. A location being a storage pool. ie if it's in two storage pools it is in 2 locations. An additional detail parameter could be displayed as egStoragepool...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

fcmcli to display date/time of backup

1. FCM for custom apps to display the date/time the flash backup was taken when using fcmcli. 2. Allow TSM offloaded backups to run under root so all files are backed up (as the app ID doesnt always have ability to backup all files) and to do incr...
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Flexible NDMP Backups

What we wanna change is how TSM control the NDMP dumps and assigning theMGMT Class to each object.We want to make sure when I assign a MGMT Class to my dedicated backup.Then should that backup be save for that amount of time and not change thehist...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

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