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Canceling sessions by name

Running sessions can be cancelled only by session id. .Please add a funcionality to cancel all sessions from one node with a single command. Further: Please add a option to cancel all sessions and prevent reopening of sessions by a node. Thank you...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TSM support for EMC DD Boost

I have 2 large customers requesting support for DD Boost.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

RedHat Enterprise Virtualization - Manager

Add RHEV-M support similar to support provided for VMWare.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 5 Not under consideration

FastBack support for large capacity snapshot backup

We came across a few customers who looking for friendly backup utilities to backup large Exchange data (over 8-10 TB).
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Microsoft Exchange 4 Not under consideration

Archive function

An ability to run archive on the TSM server side insted of from the clientsid where you have the competition with normal backup windows.When the archive is on diskpool, dedup can be used.generate backupset is to devclass that can't be deduped.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

TSM Consolidate Command (SYS4645)

A TSM "Consolidate" command will do something similar to move nodedata, but thresholds can be set based on a node's level of tape fragmentation. Just as it's seamless that migration or reclamation starts automatically when disk and tapes reach a c...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Document, support procedure to import TSM 6.3 Cognos reports in TCR server

ITM V6 customers already have ITM TEMS, TEPS and Tivoli Data Warehouse (TDW) servers for monitoring. TCR 2.1.1 can be downloaded and installed from ITM 6.2.3....We need to know the TSM 6.3 package to download/extract to retrieve the TSM 6.3 Cognos...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 4 Not under consideration

Cancel all processes of a given type by name

Enhance the cancel command to be able to cancel all processes of a given type by name.� For example, a �cancel migrations� or a �cancel reclamations� command should cancel those types of processes if they are running without executing a cancel pro...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Further develop the storage pool migration mechanism

Develop the storage migration mechanism (both the MIGRATE STG command and automatically initiated equivalents) to either move data at a more granular level than node ownership, or develop it to support multiple processes per whatever level of gran...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

set policies for retentions within TSM

NOTE: Colin Dawson is aware of this RFETivoli SSAM/TSM Couldn't policies for retention be set by one person and then validated and activated by another? Four Eyes principle. Needed to prevent single persons from deleting content.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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