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Support for installing TSM Administration Center on Tivoli Integrated Portal 2.2

We would like to be able to install TSM Administration Center 6.2, 6.3, 6.x on Tivoli Integrated Portal 2.2. ILMT is currently installed on TIP 2.2 and we would like to only have one TIP instance. Now we are forced to use 2 TIP instances. - 1 TIP ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM support for Oracle Linux and Oracle VM Server

We need support for this implementation:- Installation of Tivoli Storage Manager BA client, Tivoli Storage Manager API and Tivoli Data Protection for Oracle on operating system Oracle Linux 6.1;- Installation of Tivoli Storage Manager BA client on...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

TSM for Virtual Machines LAN Free Backup Limitations

Faster VMware virtual machine backup. Using LAN Free, you can only start backup for as many virtual machines as you have tape drives available. This puts a severe limitation on the number of virtual machines that you can simultaneously backup. Thi...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Ability to Archive Deleted Data

I would like the ability to archive inactive data as well as active data at a directory (folder) level.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 7 Not under consideration

Password sync between NODE ADMIN and NODE.

Password generation on Administrators with NODE access, to keep it in sync with automatically updated NODE passwords. In order to prevent message ANR0470W, when using VSS backups.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Patra:SAS Tape Problem

We would like TSM to supoort SAS Tape. TSM detect TS3100 as LTO device class but TSM detect SAS tape as GENERIC. So we can't restore data with different device class. SAS Tape Model:7216-1U2IBM Multi-media Enclosure - DAT160 SAS Tape Drive - HHLTO...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

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Support TSM Server for Solaris x86
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

need a method to have rc.acs_ssi startup/shutdown put into the rcn.d dirs for Linux like TSM 6 install does ro start/stop TSM

In our Linux environment things are killed and started in the /etc/rcn,d scripts where n is the run level. Here are the directories: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 25 16:30 rc0.d -> rc.d/rc0.dlrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 25 16:30 rc1.d -> rc...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM client parameter ERRORLOGMAX implementation unusable for SONAS

Solution does require 1) Limit the log size of dsmerror.log2) Wrapping commands to implement a CLI just simply list the contents of the log file, meraning an implementation is required that starts listing the oldest entry first and the last entry ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Tivoli Admin Center 6.2.0 : act logs are not inlcuded in interface for collection of logs

act logs are not inlcuded in interface for collection of logs;
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

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