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MOVE NODEDATA for volumes with access mode of offsite

This enhancement would result in the supported ability to move a client node's backup data, which is spread across many offsite tapes, onto fewer tapes, thereby resulting in fewer tapes to deal with during restore operations. These tapes have acce...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Multiple DOMAIN.VMFULL statements should be allowed in dsm.opt

Multiple DOMAIN.VMFULL statements should be allowed in dsm.opt for the backup/archive client for VMFULL type backups.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

No Exchange Dumster functionality by IMR

Since Exchange 2010, Mailbox and DB-dumpster are an important feature for customers. TDPE 6.x is always backing up these data via VSS/Snapshot technologies. Unfortenatly, TDPE 6.X is not able to restore these kind of datas. The customer who is usi...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

IMR restore account to powerful

Every IMR enabled windows account has to have the "Organization Management group" assigned, to full fill any IMR-Operation on any Microsoft Exchange version with any TDPE 6.x version. From security point of view, this not acceptable. Any security ...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

Storage Agent configuration similar to perform libaction, except using fewer paths

Need a path configuration tool for the Storage Agent that works similar to perform libaction, but would only define drives that are seen by the storage agent machine. Manual path definition outline From Kai Asher:For example all of the following c...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 2 Not under consideration

Need support X/Open API for Tivoli Storage Manager on Windows

Add support of XBSA (X/Open API) for Tivoli Storage Manager on Windows.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Need support X/Open API for Tivoli Storage Manager on Windows

Add support of XBSA (X/Open API) for Tivoli Storage Manager on Windows.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

IBM FlashCopy Manager support for Solaris 10 x86

Currently FlashCopy manager is only supported on Solaris 10 (Sparc) and not Solaris 10 x86. There are many environments out there that run Oracle databases on Solaris 10 x86 for cost savings reasons (cheaper then buying Sparc hardware) and with Fl...
about 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Error message missing encryption code in proxy node restore on exported data

message to user that encryption code is missing or needed when restoring fra tdp exchange gui with exportet node data using the vss restore metode
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

Increase Retver>30000 of an archive copygroup

Hi, We would like to archive objects over a period of 100 years.But TSM is limited to 30,000 days or approximately 82 years.Could you increase the parameter RETVER (archive copygroup) ? Thanks
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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