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Admin tasks running remote

For admin tasks, the backup data is going from storage to the TSM server and then from TSM server to storage. Use an other server to move the backup data (except the metadata) from storage to storage, that is closer to the storage.(like lan free b...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Backup from IBM Netezza over the SAN with TSM BA Client and TSM for SAN

Could you please confirm if it is or it is not supported and if the only way to execute IBM Netezza backups to TSM is over the LAN ?
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 2 Not under consideration

Change owner of linux archived objects

Using a linux client, a linux user can archive objects with his linux username or logname.Using the retrieve or delete archive function, the user cand read or delete only his archived objects.Because of a user name changing (married woman, enterpr...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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...
about 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 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

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

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