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Support for Cleversafe Locked Vault feature to provide retention conpliance

We have opportunities with National records and Archives Oman for a 100PB archive solution and with Ahli United Bank in Kuwait for a 1PB archive solution in both cases IBM's object storage Cleversafe is being proposed and we would like to include ...

ANS1360I message only in clientlog, but not in Servers actlog

following message in dsmsched.log: 11/23/2011 21:02:26 Normal File--> 47,610 \\server1\c$\xxx\file_name.pdfANS1360I Compressed Data Grew It is not possible to monitor this error automatically, because its only in clients error log. also it is a...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

We have a customer who wants backup up Exchange-2013.

HiI am writing to you because the support has recommended it to me.We have a customer who wants backup up Exchange-2013.Unfortunately, I can understand that there is no BA/TDP clients to the version yetCan you then tell me if it in any way is poss...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Delivered

TDPO Client Sun Solaris 11 x86

We need a new Version of TDPO Client for Sun Solaris 11 x86.Our TSM client instances are on version 6.3.3.100
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 4 Delivered

Active directory integration with Tivoli Storage Manager 7.1 to pick existing users

We are looking to enable LDAP Active directory authentication for our Tivoli storage manager applications. But even we integrate TSM with active directory it doesnt picks up the existing users from our active directory organisational unit for auth...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Support for SAP HANA differential backups in TDP for ERP

SAP have announced support for incremental backup capabilities in SPS10 for HANA. See link: https://blogs.saphana.com/2015/06/16/new-sap-hana-sps10/ "..........SAP HANA SPS 10 introduces several key high availability and disaster recovery enhancem...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Delivered

List of new/changed server (ANR) messages in TSM V7.x

In previous version there was documentation on new/changed messages e.g.Version 6.3.4 ANR new and changed messages this is not available in version 7. please re-instate this documentation
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

backup object manager ( backom ) reads both db2 archive logs when logs being restored

When backing up db2 archive logs using the Tivoli data protector for erp and saving multiple copies of the logs to tsm the behaviour of the tdp is as follows when trying restore the logs.It uses the logmethod to interrogate the backups and when th...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Delivered

Admin API

Please document and open the admin api to the server. There seems to be an API which is used eg. by Tivoli Integrated Portal as I can see XML in tcpdumps. Maybe you still use something like SOAP. So providing an WSDL and/or Interfaces to .NET and ...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Allow for full TLS configuration of TSM server

We currently offer backups to our customers where the internet is the transport network. This requires the use of TLS. However, TSM does not allow for configuration of TLS Ciphers, making it impossible to enable PFS ciphers supported by GSKIT. TSM...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered