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Add support for EMC NVB using NDMP

Add support for EMC NVB to speed up NDMP Backups of EMC filer file systems
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Tool to reset damaged files without "audit volume"

Sometimes there is some error condition while the TSM server is reading a tape (tape failure, drive failure, network failure, other). In many of these cases, the TSM server marks the files it could not read as "damaged". The standard way of making...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Add Wait parameter to AUDIT VOLUME command

Add parameter WAIT to the AUDIT VOLUME command. If set to YES, the AUDIT VOLUME would wait until the process is finished before continuing with the next command or next line in the script.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM - events tabel sql queries prb

Info from support:I've discussed the issue with our developers, and the symptom you see is caused by staging tables we are using to fulfill the SQL requests. I tried to confirm a perfoamnce APAR with them and I could open one if you insist, howeve...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Support for Linux on IBM z Systems

Support for Linux on IBM z Systems is needed for DB2 ACS invoking IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot - formerly IBMTivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

SVC RSA/IMM

Customer would like to monitor the hardware failures, like power cable cut situation, similar to other xSystem server via RSA/IMM interface.In pmr it was stated, that this feature was not tested and that way it is not supported. Implementing that ...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

syslog receiver for linux

Feature to allow TSM to externalise events through a reciver that can put events into syslog without the need for external scripting.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

‘Max retries' and ‘wait time' value for VM backups

One of our TDPVE datamover has been logging the following message for 3 days:ANS0361I DIAG: The VDDK Utility Thread may be hung processing another request.ANS0361I DIAG: Waiting up to another 3600000 milliseconds to process a request to VddkFullVM...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshots 4.1.6 support VMware 6.5

The customer HDI Seguros have IBM FlashSystem 7200 and IBM Spectrum control. They need create snapshots with an schedule with retentions. So, they need to use IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshots for this Use case. They Have VMware 6.5 and Oracle DB.
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect for Virtusl Enviroments

Hello, The tech note tells me do not backup the guests using one schedule due to the 512 charter limitation. We want to use one schedule. Currently TSM for VE backup schedules will only backup one schedule at a time, if the schedule doesn't comple...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

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