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Change node deduplication to none with in a diskpool

Instead of having to assign a client to a separate pool that does not have deduplication enabled, an option should be available to set a node's deduplication field to none example: Update node <nodename> deduplication=none
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM Archive from Incremental

HelloI wan to suggest , an ARCHIVE to be made from the Daily incremental backup.Many customers want to run specific archive for specific folder .Since the data is ALREADY backed up via the daily incremental backup , it will be wise to "copy" the d...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

XFS support with TDP for VMware

The TDP for VMware agent should support the XFS file system in addition to ext2, ext3, and ReiserFS.Why? XFS is a filesystem that allows more performant support of large data stores. It is part of RHEL and SLES.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Re-Map Volume Location

It would be beneficial to be able to offline a volume in a storage pool, for example your backuppool. Then at the OS level be able to manually move or copy the volume to a new physical location, log back into the TSM service and run a update vol t...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Request for Live Partition Mobility (LPM) support for TSM

Customer would like TSM to support LPM support.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

No ANR0504I message, or different message, when the file wasn't restored properly

The ANR0504I message is logged even when the restore/retrieve fails. For example: Jul 10 23:19:21 lxtsm052 dsmserv-TSM52: ANR0406I Session 2601887 started for node AISDBP_ORA (TDPO Linux86-64) (Tcp/Ip dbsrvd217.cern.ch (22144)). (SESSION: 2601887)...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Enable multiple dsmc processes to share the client dedupe cache.

Client options for VCS on Linux should provide clusterdisksonly and clusternode parms (Linux client should have parity with Windows MSCS options).
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

enhancement of query session command

Add a new option for query session command with wild card to make it user friendly.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Add capability in the dsmadmc shell for command completion.

The CLI is currently the best way of managing TSM – but it is basic by today's standards. If we have to run TSM from the CLI, then the ‘shell' should offer things like ‘tab completion' of commands, filter capability (INC/EXCL on command output), t...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Enhance TSM Admin schedules so that system commands can be ran

Currently, the only way to make TSM execute system commands is via client schedules or the define client action command.I propose that the same functionality that exists in the client schedules is added to the admin schedules so that system comman...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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