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Provide Volume Label Information when querying list of available components to backup for File System And Custom App Support.

FCM 3.2 Beta Customer would like the ability to view the Volume/ Mount Point label along with the drive/mount point name when querying the list of available components to backup for the Flash Copy Manager For Windows File System and Custom Applica...
about 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

SYSBACK restore of multibos

Allow restores of MutiBOS AIX systems using TSM for Sysback
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

pmr 32294.499.000 - installing stg agent with NIM

The ablility to use NIM to push Tivoli client software to all AIX server (the way we use to be able to do it)
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

AIX equivalent to Windows "snapshotcachelocation" option when using TSM image backups on AIX clients

We are currently running TSM image backups, (e.g. dsmc image backup /disk01 -snapshotcachesize=10), but this sometimes fails because of lack of space available in the Volume Group. The problem is that when the backup runs it creates a new temporar...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Backup Stub-Files only (no data) for migrated datasets (TSM HSM)

We need an option in TSM/HSM that for already migrated datasets only the stub file (inode) will be backed up and not the data itself.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

export node only metadata

export node metadata without the backup data from one TSM LC to another TSM LC and update owner of libvolume on TSM LM.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Request TSM Server 6.3.1 support for Veritas VCS on AIX

BNY Mellon requires TSM Server 6.3.1 for AIX support of Veritas VCS to implement haigh availablity.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Add a warning note to the "AUDIT VOLUME" TSM help page

The help page of the "AUDIT VOLUME" command should include a warning like: "Use the FIX=Yes option ONLY if you are absolutely sure that your tapedrive and SAN infrastructure are perfectly healthy. Make sure also that tape heads are clean and that ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Cross Mount Points in baclient without having to use domain statements in dsm.opt

Ability to cross Mount Points when setting up a BAClient without being forced to update the dsm.opt file everytime one is created.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Scratch volume selection for SCSI type libraries

1. When a tape is checked out, then checked back in, the mount count should not be reset. The count should only be set to zero when a new tape is labeled into the library or forced to zero by options. 2. Add an option to the check in command to fo...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration