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Define new attrbutes (opt settings) for the Tivoli Storage Manager TDP environments.

During restores of large databases via TSM - the connection will exceed the default values of the CommTimeOut and IdleTimeOut settings. In order to alleviate theis problem, we have defined out CommTimeOut and IdleTimeOut values to be very large-be...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

ACL restores @ single file restore

In case of a single file restore, the Windows Explorer do not allow to copy ACLs in a normal copy-and-paste operation.So it is needed to use a 3rd party product (xcopy, robocopy,..) to "copy" the files from backup to productive location. This is i...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TDP Backup through a firewall with a one way connection (server -> client)

TDP Backup through a firewall with a one way connection (server -> client) For an incrementall is this possible, but unfortunately not for a tdp-backuphttp://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsm.client.do...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

TSM Client Install

Installing TSM B/A client without impacting other products using IBM GSKit. We wanted to not replace the existing "c:\program files\gskx" folderone solution could create an new V6.2.x compatible gskit folder in the same directory or to allow to ch...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

TSM Client session handling

It appears that TSM session handling for DB2 database (and for other DBs as well) is based on data received from TSM client. If the no data is received from client node TSM assumes client is not responding and terminates the client database backup...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

GUI Point in Time Restore for a large number of files fails to display all files that are recoverable.

Point in Time restore of a Windows TSM Client with unlimited number of versions for 30 days does not work if a server has a larger number of files, or hourly backups are run.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Is a defect

Provide Volume Label Information when querying list of available components to backup for File System And Custom App Support.

FCM 3.2 Beta Customer would like the ability to view the Volume/ Mount Point label along with the drive/mount point name when querying the list of available components to backup for the Flash Copy Manager For Windows File System and Custom Applica...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

SYSBACK restore of multibos

Allow restores of MutiBOS AIX systems using TSM for Sysback
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

pmr 32294.499.000 - installing stg agent with NIM

The ablility to use NIM to push Tivoli client software to all AIX server (the way we use to be able to do it)
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

AIX equivalent to Windows "snapshotcachelocation" option when using TSM image backups on AIX clients

We are currently running TSM image backups, (e.g. dsmc image backup /disk01 -snapshotcachesize=10), but this sometimes fails because of lack of space available in the Volume Group. The problem is that when the backup runs it creates a new temporar...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

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