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Journal based backup for RHEL7

We will soon be deploying Redhat 7 for all our new servers, including a large number in the research space for use with large numbers of files (potentially hundreds of millions). Journal based backups are not available for RHEL7, only for RHEL6 wh...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

When SVC upgrade stalls and you click abort upgrade a warning states that hosts will lose access but there is no CANCEL

When customer encounters a stalled upgrade, they have an option to Stop Upgrade. When that is selected another pop up window shows up that states "There are volumes that can only be accessed via one node. These volumes will become unavailable. Cli...
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

FCM MODE SENSE(6) Page 0x1C Support

Customer have been bothered with unknown originated FCM (FlashCopyManager) Error since 2013. This time, we have confirmed that the trigger of error is not supported page,Mode Sense(6),0x1CCustomer dissatisfy long-term unsentimental situation , so ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TSM Linux Client 6.4.X web interface with Java Version 8

The Linux web client is not working with Java 8x. Please resolve
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Implement -fromdate -todate in the TSM API

We have today a product which can restore only block changes from TSM, but we have to retrieve a list of all objects from TSM because of that there is no way to get a list of objects that has been backed up since a given date/time.Similar function...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Add Support for ESXi\vCenter 6.0 GA Release

TSM for VE currently shows no support VMWare\ESXi 6.0 Release.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

New exclude statement "exclude.systemstate all"

It would be nice when there is a exclude statement to excludethe backup of the systemstate on windows:exclude.systemstate allTil version 6.4 there was an special exclude-statement for systemservices "exclude.systemservice all" (Win2003,WinVista)
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Web Client GUI and

Please make TSM Web Client GUI compatible with Java 8 security requirements
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Restore of all filespaces of a TSM Node on a backupset with one command

I would need a additional function within the restore backupset where I can tell the TSM Server that it should restore all filespaces of a certain node on a backupset, not only one filespace per command.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Sanbolic Melio File System

Please provide support for the Sanbolic Melio FS. Other backup vendors support this product and a high dollar 'agency is using TSM backup and upgraded their environment to Melio File systems. TSM is able to see and backup this file system, but due...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration